Oracle Solaris Puns

Hi guys I'll just like your opinions as a system admin. I dont deal with Unix much would you think its a worthy skill to know solaris?

Trying to install Oracle 11gr2 on Solaris 11.2.0.3.  Everything going well until we get this error:

"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2021-10-23_05-39-18PM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/motif21/libmawt.so: ld.so.1: java: fatal: libXm.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory"

Stopped dead in the water.

Old production platform that requires both of those versions, so can't get around Solaris 11.2/Oracle 11gr2.

If so, how?

Hi all,

Please excuse my ignorance but I am a little bit lost when it comes to Solaris 11 licensing on Oracle SPARC hardware... What I understand is :

-On non Oracle hardware it is something like 1K€ an year.

-On Oracle Hardware it comes with the "hardware support" when you buy the machine.

My question is : If I buy a server like a T4-1 machine that is out of warranty, can I use Solaris 11.4 on it and access the Oracle repository ? If not, what is the cost of a license ? It is not that easy to get this information on Oracle Website and Oracle Sales in my country is not very helpful...

Thank you ! :)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/04/oracle_layoffs_solaris_sparc_teams/

What is it with you, Oracle, you bought a brilliant and innovative company, Sun, and have proceeded to cut it up, piece by piece. First with virtualbox, then with MySQL then the whoring your doing over Java, and now Solaris and SPARC - 2 divisions that have effectively been going since the start of Sun itself

RIP Solaris

RIP SPARC

I'm building a new S7-2L server running Solaris 11.4. The operating system is installed on internal disks. I've configured two of the four NICs in an IPMP group for "front-end" (i.e., SSH etc.) access, and the second four NICs in an IPMP group for iSCSI traffic, connecting to a Nimble disk array.

What I'm experiencing is that as the server boots, the iSCSI initiator is starting before the IPMP group is active. This means the iSCSI LUNs are not being found.

Once booted, I can either restart the iSCSI initiator (svcadm disable/enable) or do a devfsadm, but I'm assuming this is not normal behaviour.

Has anyone seen similar behaviour? I'm not sure if this is an iSCSI issue (timeouts etc.) or a problem with IPMP (something causing it to take too long to start up).

Any thoughts? Thanks.

At a major IT conference I saw an Oracle stand, wondered over and asked about running Solaris on Oracle Cloud.

The first rep didn’t know what Solaris was.

The second one said he’d never been asked and had no idea.

I kid you not, these were Oracle sales people at a major event.

RIP Solaris, Oracle not only killed it but have now buried it too.

As you may know, along with all of the drama about the recent Windows 0Day, but not a 0Day mini crisis. A major privilege escalation was discovered for Solaris 6 to 10 (and probably even 11, explained here)

Apparently Oracle has responded to these exploits, calling them 'rumors' saying the posts on Twitter are pure speculation and not credible, and also saying the exploits are pure BS. Nice way to handle your public perception Oracle

Oracle is still supporting Solaris till about 2034 but we are planning to slowly migrate off our applications to a flavour of Linux such as Redhat. If you have used these two OS before what are your opinions regarding their performance or stability etc. Thanks

I have a Solaris 10 (5.10) machine (with external proprietary raid 1 array - SCSI external using IDE drives) running a piece of software that is very important and I need to modify the database. I also have an identical piece of hardware that I can use for anything.

After spending some time with the 'raid 1' array, I have determined that it is not functioning correctly as a raid device. It says it rebuilds the array - but the system cannot boot if the primary drive is removed.

The motherboard on the spare system has both IDE/SATA connectors.

I am trying to determine the most direct way to make an image of the primary workstation (without removing the drives from the raid array) and copy the image to the spare computer using an IDE or SATA drive - and be able to boot from it.

Also, I can pay for a consultant if the consultant can walk me through the process (and help automate it with a script) so I can use it as a reliable backup means in the future.

The primary system has refused to boot before and the client's technicians actually resolved it using percussive maintenance. So I do not feel comfortable making even the simplest changes on the primary computer until I have a 'drop in place' duplicate machine.

If I need to buy software to make this an easy straightforward process, I can do so. I will need to be able to communicate the process to less technical technicians when I am finished.