Solaris 8 Software, You Can Efficiently Manage Resources and Provide a Higher Level of Fraction of the Cost of a Mainframe Service

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THE SOLARIS™8OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

Today’s explosive levels of growth — in terms of bandwidth, networks, and digital devices — have created the phenomenon known as the Net Effect. It’s forcing organizations to rethink KEY HIGHLIGHTS how they create, manage, extend, and ultimately deliver information technology (IT) services. Yet at the same time, it’s creating massive opportunities for innovation with regard to service and functionality. For more than 15 years, Sun has been telling the world that The Network Is The Computer™, • The leading UNIX operating and has led the way in helping our customers harness the transforming power of the Net environment, combining power, Effect. As the foundation for Sun™ systems, the Solaris™ 8 Operating Environment enables your stability, and predictability with complete backwards compatibility IT organization to deliver on the promise of massive scale, continuous real-time computing, and secure systems — while increasing service levels, reducing risk, and decreasing costs. • Offers data center-class reliability, availability, and serviceability – at a With Solaris 8 software, you can efficiently manage resources and provide a higher level of fraction of the cost of a mainframe service. It also helps reduce complexity by providing easy-to-use interfaces and comprehen- • Assures superior availability through a sive administration tools — all designed to help lower your IT risk. And by optimizing your smaller, more stable kernel design and resources and enabling them to scale to meet demand, the Solaris 8 Operating Environment increased load balancing across helps you to minimize costs and lower your total cost of ownership. multiple processors • Scales to handle heavy traffic, huge data sets, and compute-intensive SOLARIS IS AVAILABLE problems When businesses operate around the clock and around the globe, downtime doesn't just • Tightens an already secure affect the company — it affects the entire supply chain, from the largest to the smallest link. environment with increased support The need for near-zero system downtime is an absolute requirement for just about everyone. for major security protocols as well as new technologies Your customers, suppliers, and employees expect your business to be online 24x7. • Offers a complete global solution with The reliable Solaris Operating Environment is acknowledged by the industry to be the pre- extensive support for 37 languages mier UNIX® environment for SPARC™ and Intel Architecture systems. By minimizing planned and 123 locales and unplanned downtime, reducing administration errors, and simplifying troubleshooting, it • Provides the premier deployment keeps your mission-critical applications available, and ensures high-speed, reliable access to platform for Java™ technology your data. Based on a smaller, more stable kernel, the Solaris platform delivers industry-lead- • Enhances ease of use through simplified software installation and ing load balancing across multiple processors. setup plus comprehensive integration capabilities To maximize uptime, Solaris software provides built-in features such as live upgrade, auto- • Supports the latest networking matic dynamic reconfiguration, hot relief, hot diagnostics, dynamic system domains, IP net- protocols and adheres to all major work failover and balancing, UNIX file system logging, and remote console. These features industry standards enable you to maximize uptime and increase availability to services. As with previous versions, the modular construction of the Solaris 8 platform allows installation of new feature updates as they become available — while your applications continue to run. Updates can be installed on a separate partition from the currently running environment. When installation is complete, a simple reboot enables the new version to take control. This enables you to reduce the amount of planned downtime needed and significantly decrease your risk — because the older version is simply a reboot away.

Sun Cluster 3.0 software increases the availability and capacity of the Solaris Operating Envi- ronment by enabling core services, such as devices, file systems, and networks, to operate seamlessly across a cluster. Sun Cluster 3.0 is integral to the SunPlex™ framework, which is an end-to-end, fully integrated application service delivery solution for tightly coupled environments that also includes servers, storage, interconnects, the Solaris Operating Environment, applications, and support. Within the Sun Clus- SOLARIS IS MANAGEABLE ter environment, both failover and scalable ser- To improve ease of use and provide compre- vices help you easily manage and maintain hensive system management tools, the Solaris service levels. Nodes in a cluster can be used to Operating Environment includes several automatically recover failed services, or dynami- applications. cally add scalable services anywhere in the • Solaris Web Start Wizards™ software cluster to increase capacity. These capabili- simplifies the installation, setup, and ties are key to increasing delivered service lev- administration of applications written for els, while decreasing costs and reducing both Solaris and Java™ technology-based administrative risk environments with point-and-click ease of use. This ensures trouble-free configuration SOLARIS IS SCALABLE of new systems at installation time. Designed for multiprocessing and 64-bit computing, Solaris software delivers a • With Solaris JumpStart™ software, the consistent environment — from smaller Solaris Operating Environment and departmental servers to massive, clustered applications can be placed on a central servers with more than 100 CPUs. When your server, which can then be used to remotely enterprise outgrows its present system, there set up a Solaris system anywhere on your is no need to move everything to a larger network. For environments where IP computer running a different operating addresses are centrally managed, Solaris system. Solaris simply runs faster, and runs JumpStart software also supports the same applications faster, when you put it installation via DHCP. on larger computers. • Through Web-based enterprise management (WBEM), companies can The multithreaded design of the Solaris develop and deliver a set of standards-based environment also delivers much faster management tools that leverage new performance for key enterprise applications technologies, such as XML and CIM, and core system functions. A built-in software operating over HTTP. component, the Solaris Network Cache • Administration is eased through the Solaris Accelerator, increases Web server performance Management Console™ software and WBEM- for many pages by as much as six times. compliant tools. Solaris Management Console software is a Java technology-based Unlike other operating systems, the Solaris client/server application that integrates all Operating Environment scales almost linearly GUI-based tools. The software takes within a single machine. Additional CPUs advantage of common instrumentation in mean additional compute power — the Solaris Operating Environment. application performance increases in almost a direct relationship to the number of CPUs • Integrated into the Solaris Management added. This means Solaris software can easily Console software, role-based access control handle heavy traffic, huge data sets, and (RBAC) enables superuser rights to be enormously compute-intensive problems, for delegated to multiple users, and distributes example. system tasks. This not only frees the administrator’s time for performing more However, scalability means more than just the proactive tasks, but also tightens the number of servers — it means easy expan- security of the network. sion in every direction. That is why the Solaris platform supports: • To provide ease of management of a cluster platform, Sun Cluster 3.0 software presents • One million simultaneous processes on a a simple, unified management view of single system cluster-wide, shared system resources and • Up to 128 CPUs on a single system services. All cluster resources appear as if • More than four billion network connections they were on a single system. • 32- and 64-bit applications • Sun Management Center software enhances • Two-, four-, and eight-node clusters application availability, optimizes performance and scalability, and simplifies • IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses management of your Sun hardware, the • Up to 512 CPUs in a clustered environment Solaris Operating Environment, and applications. Hundreds of Sun systems can easily managed, and reliable iPlanet™ be managed at once through a Java Directory Server to store userIDs, passwords, technology interface or Web browser, and host information. enabling complex tasks to be performed with ease from virtually anywhere on the For customers in government, education, network. finance, health care, and insurance industries, • Disk volume management is becoming an Solaris software’s auditing capabilities are certified against the Common Criteria specifi- intrinsic part of the Solaris platform with cation for Controlled Access Protection Profile the integration of the Solaris Volume at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (CAPP at EAL4). Manager (formerly known as Solstice DiskSuite™ software). SOLARIS IS CONNECTED To ensure a consistent level of service to users, More users than ever before are connected to groups, and applications, the Solaris platform the Net, using more types of devices — from also supports a number of components, includ- PDAs and PCs to workstations and ing Solaris Resource Manager™ software. This mainframes. With standards-based software provides fine-grained control of system networking built into the software, the Solaris resources. Together with Solaris Bandwidth 8 Operating Environment offers proven Manager software, which enhances your ability interoperability and optimizes networking to control and provision IP traffic priorities and across a range of platforms. This means that it bandwidth, it ensures network resource avail- can simultaneously support hundreds of ability and manageability. thousands of users across the globe — anytime, anywhere, with any device. SOLARIS IS TRUSTWORTHY As more and more mission-critical operations Because the Solaris 8 Operating Environment move online, security and predictability is universal, it supports a global set of increase in importance. With Solaris 8 languages that can be added or removed at software, security is easy to deploy and any time. Globalization is enhance through manage — many frameworks and products extensive support for 37 languages, 123 are either incorporated or available via free locales, and complex text formats for Arabic, download. These include: Thai, and Hebrew, along with support for the development of multilingual applications and • Kerberos euro currency. • IPSec for creating virtual private networks (VPNs) In today’s heterogeneous network, compre- • Smart card authentication compatible with hensive interoperability is a must. Solaris PC the open card framework (OCF) 1.1 NetLink software delivers native Windows NT specification network services, integrated with directory, authentication, and file and print services. • Role-based access control for distributing superuser authorizations SOLARIS IS COMPREHENSIVE • Auditing features To ensure as comprehensive a solution as possible, additional products are packaged in Solaris 8 software helps decrease your IT risk the Solaris Media Kit, such as: by protecting your network from external and • StarOffice™ productivity suite internal attack. Complementing the workgroup and enterprise versions of • Forte™ for Java technology SunScreen™ Secure Net software, the • Forte Developer 6 tools SunScreen Lite version provides sophisticated • iPlanet Web Server stateful dynamic packet filtering — a firewall — for no cost. • iPlanet Directory Server • Oracle8i Enterprise Edition database with Through 56-bit and 128-bit encryption development license routines, users can deploy sophisticated VPNs, file encryption, and protected login methods Also, the Media Kit contains the Solaris regardless of location. An LDAP client for Software Companion CD, which includes a naming services enables the highly scalable, broad array of popular freeware programs: • Desktop environments AVI formats, MIDI audio using the Java straightforward that Sun offers a Solaris • Window managers Media Framework APIs, Netscape™ Application Guarantee compatibility application launcher, and hot-key editor. program. For both SPARC and Intel • Web services software Architecture platforms, existing • Editors As part of a continued commitment to applications written to the Solaris • Utilities interoperability and open source, Sun application binary interface will move to plans to adopt the easy-to-use GNOME their respective Solaris 8 platforms • Tools, such as GNU compilers and user environment as the future desktop of without a recompile or rebuild, improving Samba the Solaris platform. system reliability and saving time and money. No other operating system vendor EXTENSIVE LINUX COMPATIBILITY NETWORKING ENHANCEMENTS can make this claim. In addition, many tools and utilities that With more than 15 years of support for ship with Linux distributions are on the networking-related protocols, the Solaris 8 Through the Free SolarisSM Binary License Solaris Software Companion CD. This Operating Environment offers one of the Program, the Solaris Operating enables system administrators and most mature networking stacks in the Environment is available — without developers to manage and develop for two industry. By supporting the latest paying any license fee — for use on platforms at once. A common look and networking protocols and standards, systems with eight or fewer CPUs. feel means that users and developers Solaris 8 software is the ideal platform for familiar with one environment will feel the development of agile, dependable, STANDARDS: comfortable with the other. And lxrun, a leading-edge network applications. Interface: X/Open® UNIX 98 . Graphics: X11, free utility shipped with the Solaris Adobe PostScript™, Display PostScript™, platform, enables Linux applications to Several new networking features are OpenGL®. Desktop: CDE, Motif. Object: Java run unmodified in the Solaris Operating based on Internet Engineering Task Force IDL. Connectivity: ONC™, ONC+™, NFS, Web- Environment on the Intel Architecture (IETF) standards. Service location protocol NFS™, SMB, and optional NetWare IPX/SPX, platform. (SLP) simplifies the discovery and use of SNA, AppleTalk, DECnet, and others. Inter- network resources such as printers, Web net: HTTP, FTP, Telnet, DNS, NTP, IMAP4, JAVA TECHNOLOGY servers, file systems, tape drives, mail DHCP, SNMP, SMTP, IPv6, IPSec, Kerberos, For deploying Java technology-based servers, and so on. The Solaris 8 platform SASL, OCF. Protocols: LDAP v3 IETF RFCs applications, the Solaris Operating is also among the first major software 1323, 1510, 1652, 1869, 1870, 1891–1894, Environment leads the industry as the environments to support IPv6, the 1985, 1996, 2018, 2136, 2045, and 2078. premier, mission-critical platform. It standard that allows the Internet to scale SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS improves Java server-side performance and and deliver a virtually unlimited number stability for large data center applications. of connections. Built-in support for mobile SPARC (32- and 64-bit) or Intel Architecture Because Java technology is tightly IP, a proposed IETF standard, allows host (32-bit) platforms. Disk space: 600 Mbytes integrated into the operating mobility with continuous network for desktops; one Gbyte for servers. Mem- environment, it utilizes multithreading connectivity. This enables a mobile node, ory: 64 Mbytes minimum capabilities to deliver the scalability, such as a wireless device, to stay performance, and stability needed for connected to the Internet regardless of its FOR MORE INFORMATION enterprise applications. location. To learn more about the Solaris Operating Environment, visit www.sun.com/solaris. DESKTOP FEATURES ADOPTION For additional technical and development For Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Because Solaris 8 software combines information, please visit the BigAdminSM por- applications, such as calendar, mail, power, stability, and predictability with tal at www.sun.com/bigadmin. memo, and address book, data complete backwards compatibility, you synchronization from PDA devices is now can count on a smooth transition for your included. CDE also features streaming applications. In fact, it’s so video using MPEG1, MPEG2, QuickTime,

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