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In 2009, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems hardware and software: Solaris operating system, MySQL database, Java programming language, and SPARC hardware - servers and storage systems. The Oracle Corporation's stated strategy is to become an end-to-end service provider for corporate and public sector clients. Oracle has been emphasizing that its software will simplify the development, management, and monitoring of service oriented architecture while delivering performance and scalability. In conjunction with additional acquisitions, Coherence Tangosol software is being used to provide value-based application performance to distributed and frequently accessed data. Tangosol Data Grid is an enabler for the use of XPT: Extreme Transaction Processing in financial services, telecommunications, travel, and logistics industries. Solaris, IBM AIX, and HP-UX servers, represent approximately 10% of the installed base of server operating systems and have high reliability and service ratings among mainframe distributions. Collectively, they serve as an alternative to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. Sun Microsystems developed and positioned Solaris-UNIX as a base operating system platform and front end for scalable databases, web servers, middleware, and virtual machines to IBM mainframe operating systems - z/OS, z/VSE, and z/VM. Oracle Corporation has extended the featureset and made enhancements to the Solaris 11 operating system to support virtualization, isolation of workloads, and network virtualization for provisioning VM: virtual machine deployment. The secure-by-default features for startup, role-based root access, phone-home automatic reporting and auditing have been implemented to support recurring cloud deployments. The Solaris 11 release is integrated in the Oracle software environment: 1- Java programming language 2- Oracle VM 3- Oracle applications 4- Oracle WebLogic 5- Oracle Fusion middleware 6- Oracle Database 11g products.
Solaris is a component in the Oracle Corporation SOA: service oriented architecture strategy and development platform roadmap. Solaris Cluster extends Solaris virtualization technologies and provides support for Oracle applications and databases. In addition to managing resources such as load balancing and global virtual IP addresses, security and networking capabilities have been improved in deploying active applications through Solaris Cluster scalable data services. The system and volume management choices are included with replication modules.
Cloud computing is central to the Oracle Corporation strategy for delivering expanded services and software offerings to its clients: public, private, and hybrid clouds. Oracle hardware and software infrastructure provides scalability, data addressing, storage subsystems, and performance. Management tools deploy and provision systems and services to meet elastic requirements. Oracle Solaris 11 supports and enables:
This cloud strategy brings challenges and risks: applications need to scale for handling orders of magnitude, the inability to manage peak activity means a loss of service and revenue, and dislocation to customers, and security must be built in at each level to ensure that applications and services run with integrity and safely.
The Oracle Solaris cloud deployments are implemented using default features for startup, role-based root access, automatic reporting, and auditing. Oracle Solaris 11 integrates Oracle Solaris Zones, dynamic resource management, and network bandwidth control. Computing resources can be divided into multiple environments that can be provisioned and migrated. As cloud deployments scale, the assumption is that Oracle customers will repeatedly deploy multiple VMs. The Solaris operating system provides virtualization for an elastic cloud infrastructure which can expand and contract on demand while providing services.
The Solaris operating system uses the ZFS file system for storing up to 256 quadrillion ZB: Zetabytes without media limits. The file system space automatically is allocated across storage devices. The advantages with the ZFS file system include: 1- root and boot environments 2- integrated volume management 3- built-in compression 4- data integrity with copy-on-write and RAID-Z 5- Tiered storage with Flash. 6- Snapshot, clone, and rollback for backup, restore, and migration.
The consensus is that Oracle Corporation will be evaluating UNIX-Solaris and its investment in the Oracle-Sun Microsystems hardware platform in relation to the broad industry support for specialized utilization of Linux-variants and its own cloud and mobile computing strategies. Oracle has been investing in both UNIX-Solaris and Linux operating systems. By contributing to and supporting the open source Linux operating system base code, Oracle Corporation is positioning its hardware architecture to meet emerging and new client computing requirements in multiple ways. The capability to migrate from Solaris to Linux or have both operating systems coexist on a hardware platform removes issues associated with endianness and provides an economic incentive both to continue licensing the Oracle database and develop applications with Oracle software. Failure to account for a varying endianness across architectures when writing code for mixed platforms leads to failures and bugs that can be difficult to detect. A big-endian machine stores the most significant byte first; a little-endian machine stores the least significant byte first. In these standard forms, the bytes remain ordered by significance. Mixed-endian and middle-endian forms also are possible where the ordering of bytes within a 16-bit word can be different from the ordering of 16-bit words within a 32-bit word. Endianness is important as a low-level attribute of a particular data format. The order in which the two bytes of a UCS-2 character are stored in memory is of considerable importance in network programming where two computers with different byte orders may be communicating with each other. Several leading hardware and software companies have based their information technology operations on Linux and open source software. Accordingly, Oracle Corporation has been transitioning software to work on Linux-variant operating systems in order to adjust its strategy and respond to competition in the market.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is open source software designed for large data centers and virtualization. It is acknowledged to be a stable platform for enterprise applications. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a typical implementation would be either a Fedora Core or CentOS deployment. Each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is supported for up to 10 years. Oracle Corporation - Solaris 11 contains a number of significant changes, including an installer that replaces JumpStart, new packaging, and a requirement to use the ZFS: Zetabye file system for root. Since the changes in Solaris 11 impact system management functionality, the impact on operational procedures can be substantial. The evaluation of Solaris 11 is a convenient juncture for evaluating whether to upgrade Solaris or consider an alternative operating system. 1 The Oracle business model is based on licenses, support, and maintenance agreements. For enterprises currently utilizing Oracle SPARC hardware and the Solaris operating system, there are reasons to consider migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Oracle’s integrated hardware and software provide the greatest benefit when running Oracle software products and the requirement is to have a single point of purchase and support. However, Oracle customers in the past have expressed issues relating to indiscriminate cost increases and possible limitations on deployment options. There continues to be a wariness not to be locked into a single vendor and the Oracle roadmap. With open source software, organizational enterprise retains the ability to control software licensing costs by combining commercial distributions with an affiliated non-commercial software distribution. The selection of an operating system for an information technology infrastructure has long-term implications. The selection process must take into account not only the featureset of the current operating system, but the ability for the operating system to enable and support business requirements. Reduced total cost of ownership, flexibility, scalability, and uncertainty regarding Oracle Corporation’s long term commitment to the SPARC architecture and the Solaris operating system are all reasons for migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. |
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SYS-ED Training Service: Solaris and Oracle Development Platform
When it comes to the Solaris operating system, there is a viable alternative to the training offered by Oracle Corporation. SYS-ED’s Solaris and Oracle development platform courses teach and explain the new and transitional featureset in multiplatform and hybrid information technology. We provide multi-platform expertise in system administration, performance design, and application development for Fortune 1000 companies, government municipalities, and healthcare providers. 2
Industry Standard Curriculum| Solaris | Oracle Database Platform | Cloud Computing | MySQL | Linux-variants |
| Solaris Administration | Solaris System Administration | Solaris - System Administration | UNIX Shell Programming | Linux Fundamentals and Support |
| Programming Languages | UNIX and Linux | Demonstrated Excellence | WebSphere MQ | DB2 |
SYS-ED’s Solaris operating system curriculum incorporates the experience of our staff with Sun Microsystems hardware, Oracle Corporation database, UNIX- and Linux-variants, and programming languages. A component of the SYS-ED training service is to configure a prototype environment which affords a client the opportunity to review benchmarks and assess processor migration and the costs associated with an implementation. Project specifications and client-specific exercises are incorporated into lesson plans. We refer to this premium training service as educational consultancy.
| Oracle WebLogic Server Convergence | Oracle Enterprise Database | Apache Hadoop - Big Data and Scalable Databases | Java Lightweight Frameworks | Mobile Database Design and Implementation |
In addition to teaching industry standard courses, SYS-ED staff and CETi Technology Partners have been evaluating benchmarks in the public domain and migration of the Oracle database to an Intel platform and assessing Oracle Corporation's efforts to make its existing product line work with: 1- open source Solaris, MYSQL, and Java 2- commercial WebLogic and Tangosol software 3- the longstanding Oracle product line. 3 This information selectivel has been selectively incorporated into our courses and training programs.
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how IPsec services can be used in combination
with scalable data services to mitigate security constrained
configurations. managed failover of IPsec sessions for making
node failure transparent to users with no new key negotiations after
failover. how in telecommunication environments the SCTP
protocol can be used on the public network in combination with
scalable data services. the round-robin load-balancing scheme which
remains effective as the number of requests and clients scales to a
higher volume. how cluster nodes in a scalable data service can
initiate connections to a server outside of the cluster using the
virtual IP address as the source IP address.
The SYS-ED training service provides a framework for
organizations to implement operational strategies and return on
investment associated with installing Solaris 10 and 11,
database migration, and application development. Few software or consulting firms, let alone training
companies, have the multidisciplinary expertise that SYS-ED has with
Solaris, Oracle database platform, WebSphere MQ middleware, and IBM DB2
database. If your organization has a requirement for Solaris training,
contact Oracle University and review course subject matter and
performance objectives. Then compare the quality and value of the
Solaris training that SYS-ED offers. |
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SYS-ED’s Solaris, UNIX, and Linux courseware is highly respected. The Computer Education Techniques knowledge base is a service for answering questions, inclusive of the research and validation of the accuracy of information in the public domain. Citation of source documentation and examples are used for providing answers to the questions. Content is selectively added to SYS-ED course hand-outs and training aids. SYS-ED's strategy is to have our courseware reviewed by the New York State Department of Education and serve as an alternative to NRV: Nationally Recognized Vendor curriculum.
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Featureset and Oracle Strategy
Virtualization is central to the Oracle
cloud computing model and its strategy for an integrated
software environment. The CPU utilization and memory
management in the Solaris Containers can support virtualized
workloads. The Solaris operating system has been enhanced to
provide a 1- Fully virtualizable network environment for
more effective sharing of networking resources and
increasing the scope for server consolidation projects. 2-
Networking resource management capabilities which allow
organizations to meet quality of service goals. 3- Efficient
scalability as network load increases through a reduction in
latency and increased throughput.
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Open Source Linux
The independence of the Linux kernel and its inclusion in the GNU General Public License provides flexibility and alternative Linux-variant base operating system choices for implementation into an existing software infrastructure. Linux can be installed on x-86 desktop and servers, Sun Ultra Sparc, IBM Power Systems, HP Itanium, X64 AMD Opteron-based systems, and IBM mainframe systems, tablet PCs and smartphones. Migration to Linux typically allows for operation with fewer CPUs and results in annual savings on software database licenses. There are Linux-variants which can be used on the same hardware platform as an existing UNIX base operating system. This can be a significant advantage when managing virtualization and logical partitioning across both UNIX and Linux operating system platforms. Public cloud services are being developed built using Linux in conjunction with other open source software. The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization supported by the leading hardware and software companies for contributing and collaborating with the developer community to improve Linux operations and client software services. There have been a number of advancements in technology by hardware manufacturers - Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM, and Oracle, and cost-driven information technology services being marketed which use Linux deployments - Google, Amazon, and Twitter. |
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Emerging Trend: Oracle Solaris to Red Hat Linux
In order to reduce costs in the datacenter, information technology management is moving to commodity x86-based servers to replace legacy RISC servers. There can be advantages in migrating from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux including a reduction in TCO: Total Cost of Ownership and increased deployment options. Red Hat has reported that IBM has migrated 700 organizations from Solaris to Red Hat Linux.4
The emerging trends include:
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The SYS-ED training service provides guidelines and best practices on using the IBM Migration Factory and moving enterprises from Oracle/Sun to IBM and Linux: server assessments, discovery tools, and workload optimization.
| Function | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Solaris Operating System |
| Package Management | RPM Package Manager: Software bundled into installable RPM packages that help automate software management. | SVR4 packages and IPS: Image Packaging System |
| Auto Installer | Kickstart | JumpStart |
| Logical Volume Manager | LVM, LVM2, LVM2 supports snapshot capability | SVM: Solaris Volume Manager |
| Software Updates | Software Updater | Solaris Update Manager |
| Software Update Management | Red Hat Network and Red Hat Network Satellite | Sun Connection / Oracle Enterprise xVM Operations Center for managing updates. |
| Default GUI | GNOME | GNOME |
| Free Software Package Repository | EPL | Sun Freeware and OpenSolaris Contrib pkg repository. |
| Init Scripts | System V-style init scripts for starting, stopping, checking standalone services, etc. | Pre Solaris 9 and Solaris legacy services. |
| General Administration Tools | vmstat, top, iostat, and netstat | vmstat, top, iostat, netstat |
| Military-grade Security | SELinux | EAL Common Criteria Certified | Trusted Solaris |
| Native Multipathing | Included | Included |
| Dynamic Tracing | System Tap | DTrace |
| Resource Management | Resource Management | Resource Manager |
| High Availability | High Availability Add-on | Solaris Cluster |
| File Systems | ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, support for encrypted file systems. | The ext4 is similar to ZFS; the ext4 is scalable to unlimited sub directions with a file system size of EB. |
| Development Tools | A recompile can be performed using GNU tools on SPARC and then moved to Linux. There may be issues with the API when moving to Linux. | Oracle Solaris DTrace Toolkit, GCC runtime libraries, gedit, memcached distributed object caching framework, NetBeans |
| Networking | IPV4 and IPV6 support | IPV4 and IPV6 support |
| Integrated Firewall | Netfilter | IPFilter |
| Cluster File System | GFS2 in Resilient Storage Add-on | CFS: Cluster File System in Solaris Cluster |
SYS-ED's training programs utilize the full complement of delivery medium: distance-learning, web-based, and technology driven classrooms. As part of conducting a training program, courseware is organized for utilization in courseware as a learning center. In order to accommodate employee workloads and staff in remote geographic locations, component courses can be scheduled over non-consecutive weeks utilizing a combination of classroom training and distance-learning. At the client's discretion, checklist of completed tasks, validation assessment, and a final examination can be utilized.
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Footnote 1:
SYS-ED staff and CETi Technology Partners are evaluating: 1- presentation slides distributed by Oracle Corporation Solaris Core Technology Development in 2011 regarding Solaris Express 11: strategy versus actual implementation, new features, and base code.
2- Oracle Solaris 11: Built for Cloud, An Oracle White Paper, November 2011.
Footnote 2:
SYS-ED’s core UNIX and Linux curriculum have been submitted to the New York State Department of Education - Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision for technical review and licensing.
Footnote 3:
Sources Transaction Processing Performance Council, www.tpc.org and www.oracle.com/sunoraclefaster.
Footnote 4:
White Paper: Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Migrate from Solaris with Confidence.
Footnote 5:
Functional Comparison Red Hat Linux Enterprise and Solaris is based upon reviewing information available at http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com.