Solaris 10: Update 10 - Released
Solaris 10 Update 10 has been released, note the "What's New" document.
Performance Enhancements Include:
- Faster ZFS performance
- Faster boot, with option to skip POST
- Faster upgrades: Live Upgrade on ZFS root partition, instead of mirrors
- Faster installation: use Flash Archive on ZFS root using text mode
- Faster reboot: option to skip some POST tests
- Enhanced throughput leveraging smt_pause for busy-wait or idle loops
- Enhanced throughput: 64 bit libmtmalloc, atomic operations replace locks
- Faster memory: 64 bit libmtmalloc, matrix lookups replace linked list
- Use libmtmalloc for applications with threads>=16
- Use libumem for applications with threads <16
- Disk I/O improvement for SSD's with poor read-modify-write firmware
- Improved I/O performance under Nahalem-EX platforms
- Improved floating point, audio, video processing with Intel AVX Support
- Faster Oracle startup/shutdown with ISM and DISM improvements
- Faster high-speed networking for x86 bnx driver Jumbo Frame support
- Increased network performance through bge driver MSI support
- Faster RAC 11g via Remote Direct Memory Access interfaces via RDSv3
- Set file system properties in a sent/received snapshot stream
- ZFS Diff: Determine differences between snapshots
- ZFS Recovery: Import a pool missing an intent log file
- ZFS Recovery: Import a damaged pool read-only
- ZFS Synchronous Behavior: standard, always, disabled
- Interval and Count for zpool: list and status
- Greater than 2 terabyte memory support
- Solaris Volume Manager clustered dataset import for recovery
- User extensibility for up to 1024 group membership
- SaMBa upgrade to 3.5.8
- x86 BASH upgrade to 3.2
- Apache C++ standard library upgrade to 4
- ZFS Difference capability
- Processor Group (pginfo) OS performance hardware view
- Processor Group (pgstat) hardware and software utilization
- Logical disk name to JBOD or blade chassis bays (diskinfo) view
- LDAP name service tol functionality without LDAP being configured
- IVv6 NAT on IPFilter
- Solaris Cryptographic and Key Management Framework support for OKM
- Additional AES cyphers in kernel SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
- New Passwords no longer unlock accounts
- Password construction policy applies to root by default
- SSH supports chroot capability
- Intel ixgbe driver support for: 82599, x540/x540T
- Intel igb driver support for: 82576, 82580, i350
- Intel e1000g 82579LM/LF LOM controllers: 1502,1506, 1519
- Broadcom bge driver support: BCM5717, BCM5724
- QLogic P3+ FCoE CNA Ethernet qlcnic and device support
- Mellanox ConnectX-2 10GigE mcxnex/mcxe drivers for GLDv3
- Intel Patsburg SCU support: ld60, ld61, ld64, ld65, ld68, ld69
- LSI MegaRAID Falcon SAS 2.0 HBA device via imraid_sas
- LSI SAS 2308 HBA storage device via mpt_sas
- LSI SAS 2208 HBA device via mr_sas
- Public Generic LAN Driver interface for bge
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