--- title: Oracle Solaris Reviews meta\_title: 'Oracle Solaris Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 97 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Oracle Solaris works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 97 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Oracle Solaris Reviews & Product Details Oracle Solaris 11 is a robust, enterprise-grade UNIX operating system engineered to deliver consistent compatibility, simplicity, and security for mission-critical applications. Designed over two decades, it ensures backward compatibility, allowing both modern and legacy applications to run seamlessly on contemporary infrastructure. Key Features and Functionality: - Consistent Compatibility: The Application Binary Guarantee ensures that existing applications operate without modification on the latest hardware, protecting software investments. - Simplified Management: Integrated lifecycle management technologies enable comprehensive system updates with a single command, covering firmware and virtualized environments. Enhanced observability tools provide real-time and historical insights, facilitating efficient troubleshooting. - Advanced Security: Oracle Solaris offers end-to-end security, from hypervisor to application. Features like Silicon Secured Memory prevent common security attacks, and one-step, multi-node compliance reporting streamlines auditing processes. - Built-in Virtualization: The operating system includes low-overhead virtualization capabilities, such as Solaris Zones, allowing for efficient resource utilization and isolation of workloads. - Scalable Data Management: With ZFS as the default file system, Oracle Solaris provides advanced storage features like built-in deduplication, encryption, and thin provisioning, ensuring data integrity and efficient storage management. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Oracle Solaris 11 addresses the critical needs of enterprises by offering a stable and secure platform that simplifies system management and enhances performance. Its backward compatibility protects existing software investments, while integrated virtualization and data management capabilities support efficient and scalable cloud deployments. The comprehensive security features ensure that systems remain protected against evolving threats, making it an ideal choice for organizations seeking a reliable and future-proof operating environment. * * * Seller [Oracle](https://www.g2.com/sellers/oracle) Discussions [Oracle Solaris Community](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-solaris/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 17 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-solaris/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![macOS Sierra](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "macOS Sierra") macOS Sierra 4.5/5(484) ](https://www.g2.com/products/apple-macos-sierra/reviews) [ ![Red Hat Enterprise Linux](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat Enterprise Linux") Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6/5(977) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) [ ![Ubuntu](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ubuntu") Ubuntu 4.5/5(2,399) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-solaris/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 97 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Oracle Solaris Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Splunk Enterprise Security ](https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-enterprise-security/reviews) Show More ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") UG Verified User in Government Administration Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/17/2019 "Reliable and powerful OS" 4/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? Ease of use and the available tools for performance tuning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? There is a limited pool of talent that has expertise in Solaris and finding good support personnel is sometimes challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? We are running the Oracle ERP application on Solaris. Using Solaris on Oracle hardware gives us the best combination of speed and power to support both our customers and our developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign MH Marcel H. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/30/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Stable and easy to use and virtualize" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? Using LDoms and Solaris Zones you can virtualize very easy. The powerful ZFS filesystems is easy to use. Failback back after upgrade is provided by BootEnvironments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? Oracle wastet time with OpenStack, which is now removed since Solaris 11.4 (August 2018). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris: Easier setup of Filesystems, Disk Multipathing and Networking compared to Linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? Oracle Solaris is the OS for large Enterprises with longterm investements. It offers high performance and reliabilty for business critical apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") AG Verified User in Government Administration Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/22/2018 "Great Solaris Operating System" 5/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? Oracle Solaris Operating System is a very powerful OS. We have used it since a very early version of Solaris 7. With each higher and newer OS, it is always 100 backward compatible. The latest OS now is Solaris 11. It runs great, and the security, recommended, and cluster patches come out quarterly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? It seems like Oracle is getting out of developing Oracle Solaris OS. 2031 is probably the last year they maintain it, and with 2034 would be the last year for support. It would be interesting to see if it becomes a free community OS support or some vendor would pick it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? We run all Oralce databases on Oracle Solaris OS. They are very secured and stable OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") UG Verified User in Government Administration Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/26/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Oracle Solaris Review" 5/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? I like how simple Oracle Solaris is. It is built to hold files and scripts and does not have extra unnecessary features that could slow down the server or the processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? Oracle Solaris does seem a little outdated compared to other technologies out there. However, the product does exactly what it's supposed to in terms of Server usage and capability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris: Oracle Solaris is a secure and reliable server to hold files and data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Solaris in our three tier architecture. All files coming in from trading partners is stored in Solaris. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/23/2018 "oracle solaris review" 0.5/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? It finally now has a decent gui with Solaris 11. Many many different repositories to choose from for opensource packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? Not enough help on google for issues, as it is a licensed product. Oracle support is not helpful without warranty. If your company can not pay for support, then do no get solaris. Many many better solaris products out there. Solaris is by far the worst unix os. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? Assisting oracle users who won't move away from this old legacy operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign SN sandeep n. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/22/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "oracle solaris review" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? solaris is more stable and comparable platform to linx Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? solaris is paid product and we will need to look out for oracle to release patch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? create more stable platform for oracle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign DJ Duane J. IT Security Specialist Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/26/2017 "Scalability Factor" 4/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? I Have Consolidated Big Environments Into Just A Few Hosts. Valuable Features: Undoubtedly, Solaris is a very stable, extremely fast, and secure operating system. Backwards Compatibility And Stability Are The Most Valuable Features.Valuable Features: Backwards compatibility and stability are the most valuable features. It provides excellent security, and cool deduplication, compression, encryption and recovery capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? Room for Improvement: The product is really good in and of itself. It does need more third-party support and applications. What needs to be improved is the documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris: Price of the software solution will be your main reason for picking this over other Unix/Linux based solutions with their pay as you go Cloud solution stands out over the current AWS standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? Filesystem of 128 bits that allows storage of 256 trillion zetta bytes. It's metadata are assigned dynamically, so it's not necessary to assign nodes beforehand or to limit the filesystem scalability when it's created. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") CT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/9/2017 "Oracle OS - Redhat but redder" 2/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? This runs the redhat Kernel - therefore its widely compatible with anything that runs on redhat - they do their own interpretation of the kernel, or you can just straight up use the redhat one as far as I can tell. The integration between the OS and the Oracle Database management software is as you would expect being as though it is from the same company. A number of our large telecoms customers operate with this as their day to day administration software platform and are really pleased with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? If you submit a bug to Oracle, Oracle must then submit a bug report to redhat, redhat will then fix the bug, publish the fix, Oracle then takes the fix, runs it's own tests (and I'm sure edits it a bit to fit in with it's surrounding software) before fixing the the bug for the customer. If you were running and paying for the redhat service this gets simplified to: submit bug, bug fix, patch to os, so you generally find that fixing core things in Oracle OS takes a bit longer. In my experience actually finding the image for download was a pain, having to actual sin up to Oracle's cloud in order to get the free iso. I guess the keyword is "free", but giving my company details away doesn't feel free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris: a good redhat alt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? Security & Database integration are pretty top notch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Bradley D. T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bradley D. T.") BT Bradley D. T. Manager Network Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/22/2017 "For non-stop, mission critical, on-premise infrastructure - Solaris is still king in the enterprise." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? In a nutshell, ZFS is often the reason that we select Solaris to deploy in the enterprise, even in heterogeneous environments where numerous Linux and BSD machinery is running, the advantages of making storage facilities available that incorporates the snapshotting features of Oracle Solaris is compelling, even in a landscape where Btrfs is increasingly common under Linux. In conjunction with the marriage of Oracle hardware that never needs to be downed for the replacement of memory, CPUs, etc., Solaris offers metrics of uptime in the data center that exceeds most other Unices by virtue of being able to continue operating even during bare metal upgrades and maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? With respect to the native file system ZFS, yes, it is available for Linux, but due to Oracle's licensing restrictions, the way most enterprises choose to deploy it is in user space using FUSE, since it can't by default be \*distributed\* with out of the box support in Linux. That, and the fact that Btrfs is now considered stable and production ready (as evidenced by SuSE's adoption of it as the default FS which began with SLES), the deployment of snapshot on write filesystems is still primarily dominated by Linux in the enterprise. One also has to bear in mind that even going back to earlier versions of SunOS, Solaris is a bit of a different creature so there is a learning curve to performing the same systems administration functions in Solaris (i.e., "ps -e") as opposed to the way most Linux admins are used to with Bash. This necessitates addtional thought and preparation of cross-compatibility when deploying shell scripts within environments that incorporate a mixture of BSD, Linux, and Solaris operating systems on their machinery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris: Make sure you know why you want to adopt this 'particular' UNIX - If you don't know why you want or need Solaris, then you're probably better off deciding upon one of the xBSDs or a Linux distro. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? One particular plus (or minus, depending upon your perspective), is that there is a certain level of vendor lock-in - customers can't just call up a fledgling IT support company down the street. To a certain degree, this is even more pronounced with the plethora of mediocre, so-called MSPs that can only tend to Windows environments, or only feel comfortable trying to manage UNIX machines from a GUI. We often find that our new customers come to us out of frustration of having these sometimes less than competent providers tend to their IT needs, and when serious computing requirements are involved, realize that spending more on an hourly basis actually translates to an even greater return on their investment where ROI is concerned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/7/2017 "Excellent product" 5/5 What do you like best about Oracle Solaris? What I like about this product is the ease of usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris? So far I don't have anything that I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you? Since we are using Oracle database, it works well together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## Questions about Oracle Solaris? 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