Ease of use and the available tools for performance tuning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

Oracle wastet time with OpenStack, which is now removed since Solaris 11.4 (August 2018). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

Oracle Solaris does seem a little outdated compared to other technologies out there.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.

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.

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.

solaris is more stable and comparable platform to linx Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

solaris is paid product and we will need to look out for oracle to release patch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

What I like about this product is the ease of usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far I don't have anything that I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.