User Reviews of Oracle Solaris

Updated January 2025

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Oracle Solaris review

it_user488784
System Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Solaris 11 is highly scalable and fault-tolerant.
I have noticed very frequent HBA and NIC card failure in T5-1B or T4-1B blade servers. More stability is required. I have experience multiple instances where QUAD HBA+NIC Port, for T4-1B, T5-1B was failed. And we had some downtime, as replacing HBA card, potentially needs server to be powered-off. Though this was noticed in case of Blade...
Oracle Solaris review

Diego E. Aguirre
Diego E. Aguirre
Oracle ACE - Specialized in Systems Technologies at Telecom Argentina
I've worked with different flavors of Unix, but I chose Solaris. I like the...
There are some areas that could use some improvement. As with Solaris 10, you can install Solaris 11 on SPARC and x86 systems, but the number of non-Oracle x86 systems certified up to this point is less that with the previous version. In spite of that, you can still install Solaris 11 on a varied number of systems as 'bare metal' or you can...

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