
Migrating from Solaris 9 Enterprise Edition on Sun Fire V440 with BIND 8.3.3
to Solaris 10 Enterprise Edition on Dell PowerEdge R900 with BIND 9.3.5-P1
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New features of Solaris 10
Solaris 10 introduces a wide variety of new features. While there
are far too many to discuss in this Guide, the following list
mentions some of the more significant ones:
• DTrace. DTrace provides a comprehensive view of
application and operating system activity. In a single
scriptable tool, DTrace allows to you to examine both kernel
and user-level activity. Sun designed DTrace to run on live
production servers, often with negligible impact on
performance. Per Sun’s documentation, for disabled probes,
there is no performance impact at all.
• Solaris Containers. Solaris 10 provides operating system-
level virtualization. Solaris Containers combine the isolation
of Solaris Zones with resource controls.
• Solaris ZFS. The zetabyte file system combines enormous
storage capacity, snapshots, integrity checking and repair,
volume management, built-in copy-on-write support, and
the integrated redundancy capability of RAID-Z.
• Predictive Self-Healing. Solaris 10 can diagnose and help
you recover from many hardware and software problems.
The Solaris Fault Manager can automatically detect many
hardware and application problems, while the Solaris
Service Manager gives administrators a uniform interface
for managing application services.
• Solaris Trusted Extensions. Solaris 10 includes security
capabilities that were formerly available only in the Trusted
Solaris product. These allow you to combine mandatory
access control with fine-grained control of user privileges.
• Service Management Facility. A replacement for UNIX
init.d scripts, the Service Management Facility gives
administrators a single interface for managing software
services. One of the features it provides is the ability to give
a service the minimal set of root-level privileges it needs to
do its job. The ability to give privileges to services allows
ordinary users to do more tasks without compromising
security, thus letting you more tightly control access to the
root account.
New features of BIND 9
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released BIND 9 in
September of 2000. The developers of BIND 9 rewrote BIND to
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