Oracle Solaris Reviews

I mainly used Solaris as a batch server.

Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting. Its file management system is also better than Linux.

Solaris' package management could be improved, especially in comparison to Linux.

Solaris' stability is rock solid.

The on-premise version of Solaris is scalable, but the cloud version isn't so much.

I would definitely recommend Solaris as an operating system to hold huge databases. I would give Solaris a rating of seven out of ten.

It is used for Oracle applications and Oracle Database.

It works well. It is very stable and very good. 

It is also very safe. It cannot be easily infected by viruses or attacks.

It is not easy to use. It doesn't have a user-friendly interface. It should be easy to use. We are planning to move from Solaris to Linux because Linux is more flexible and user-friendly. Its installation should also be easier. 

Solaris also needs specific hardware to work well, which is another reason why we are moving to Linux. It should be more flexible in terms of hardware. It should have better integration with other hardware platforms.

I have been using Oracle Solaris for ten years.

It is very stable. We didn't have to do any maintenance on it.

It is scalable. We have approximately 120 users.

We are also using Windows Server 2012.

Its installation is not easy. It was installed a long ago. It didn't take a long time.

We get external support for installation, implementation, or maintenance. They have a team of three or four technical people.

Its licensing is on a yearly basis.

I would recommend this solution. It is stable and safe but not easy to use. It is very good for Oracle applications.

I would rate Oracle Solaris a seven out of ten.

We are using the solution for multiple purposes. We are using it, for example, for our local environment, and we are using it for our core banking. We even use it for our database and a lot of other things.

The reliability of the solution is excellent.

The security has been very good overall.

We've found the solution to have good availability.

The backup capabilities are quite good.

The solution has proven to be quite stable so far.

The product can scale.

The solution is 100% free to use. It doesn't cost a company anything as it's embedded in the hardware.

I haven't had any big issues with the solution. Largely, I've been very happy with it. 

Sometimes we get stuck for security reasons. There's an issue with either the filing or use management. However, largely it just comes down to a lack of experience and over time, users get the hang of it. 

It would be helpful if the solution offered backend management. In the 11.4 version, Oracle added a management console. It would be great if we maybe had a user management tool to go with it.

I've been using the solution for a long time. It's been about 11 years. It's over a decade at this point.

The stability has been very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable.

The solution can scale, however, it depends on the need. Whenever we require an extension we go for that.

Our whole IT department is currently on the solution.

We're quite satisfied both with technical support and the product itself. Support, for example, is responsive, however, we have a very low number of calls with Oracle due to the fact that we find this application very stable.

We have a pretty complex environment and therefore had a pretty complex setup.

You don't have to pay a licensing fee. The solution is free to use. It's bound with the hardware.

We are just customers and end-users. We don't have a business relationship with Oracle.

I would 100% recommend the solution to other organizations. The solution has been quite reliable and secure. For an enterprise environment, it's a great product.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten.

We use the solution as an internal operating system. 

Setting up Oracle Solaris can be complex because it requires more commands than other systems. 

The product is stable. 

We plan to increase the tool's usage. Our organization has many users because we deploy applications on servers, and many users connect to these applications.

The solution's support is fine. 

The to0ol's installation can be completed in two hours. 

We don't use an authorized license. 

Oracle Solaris is a good solution, but I don't think it is widely used. Most companies prefer Linux or Windows. However, its security features are good. I rate the overall product a six out of ten. Users need to be mindful of the tool's flexibility. 

The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system.

Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors.

I have been using Oracle Solaris for approximately a few years.

Oracle Solaris is an industry-working solution. However, Linux has taken over.

Oracle Solaris has to support the newer technologies that have come up in Oracle. The scalability could improve.

We have approximately 15 to 20 clients using this solution.

We had a challenge in terms of reaching out to the support. We had an issue installing Oracle Solaris in our lab environment and we had problems with configuring it with Linux.  We had a very hard time reaching out to Oracle support to fix the issue.

The initial setup of Oracle Solaris is straightforward.

The deployment took a longer time than normal since we did not receive support from Oracle which was frustrating. It took approximately two months.

The amount of people needed for the deployment depends on the environment. If the environment is small to medium then we would use between five to ten people. This includes engineers, developers, and testers.

The price of Oracle Solaris could be less expensive.

In my observation in the last two to three years, the support for Oracle Solaris has dropped. Oracle is more moving into Linux platforms.

I rate Oracle Solaris a six out of seven.

In, Oracle Solaris 11, the most valuable features to me are ZFS, Automated Installer, and Kernel Zones. In Solaris 10, they are ZFS, SMF, Live Upgrade, Zones, and JumpStart.

I would like to see improvements in user adaptability, the poor UI, and in the packaging of the applications. Solaris should look like Linux and the end user should not be afraid of using it. It's way different than linux.

It should have POSIX compatibility with Linux.

We have been used Oracle Solaris 11 for four years, and Solaris 10 for eight years.

There is limited deployment support outside of the documentation on the Oracle site, which is a problem when it comes to configuring, deploying and support for Solaris. Outside of docs.oracle.com, there’s very little knowledge base available, which is a big problem for Solaris.

For Oracle Solaris 11, I rate customer service and technical support a 7/10. For Solaris 10, 6/10.

Solaris 11 had its challenges, being a new OS & again with the limited knowledge outside of the subscription world and its adaptability rate.

Solaris 10 was not too complex to deploy.

If I had a chance, I would implement it on my own, as long as Oracle’s subscription is affordable.

It is NOT affordable compared to Linux. Oracle’s licensing policy is horrible.

Unfortunately, we are moving away from Oracle Solaris & completely into Linux now. We have replaced a whole lot of Solaris with RHEL. That's what’s happening more in IT. Oracle’s poor strategy to lift the Solaris OS and tight licensing policy is killing Solaris.

Easy-to-find self-help in Linux through different sources increases its user adaptability rate & popularity. If Solaris is even going to survive, they need to change the marketing & licensing strategy.

Solaris 11 OS is as good as Linux. In fact, some of their features are way more advanced than Linux. But you need to self-learn, get to the comfort level of using it and push others to do so, especially the platform consumers.

We use Oracle Solaris to develop and support our VDCF (Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework) management and monitoring software. Several virtual machines (LDoms and Zones) are used on SPARC and x86 Servers.

We are able to deploy new environments very quickly and securely. Using the virtualization features, we can migrate the environments very flexibly between our servers.

Solaris includes two virtualization solutions: LDoms for SPARC and Solaris Zones. Both solutions can be combined to create private clouds. Solaris Zones is ideal to separate applications and to migrate from older to current hardware. LDoms is very efficient because it uses the hardware hypervisor of the SPARC servers.
Both technologies increase Security, because they separate the applications from each other. Using the Security Compliance Framework we are sure the systems are setup properly

Patching without downtime would be nice.

Update 08/2021: Live Paching of Kernel is now available. We applied IDRs successfully on several servers.

I have been using the solution for more than 14 years now.

We had no issues with the stability.

Solaris is very robust and scalable. No issues so far scaling it.

Oracle offers a good online support portal called "My Oracle Support", which includes a big knowledge base. Because Oracle is a very large organization, it sometimes takes a bit too much time for support requests to reach the right support engineer.

Neutral

Used Solaris 10 before, but Solaris 11 is much easier and faster with patching.
Based on BootEnvironments and ZFS Solaris 11 always offers a failback.

The initial setup is straightforward. Oracle has in-depth admin manuals. To speed up deployments, we implemented our own deployment and management framework VDCF.

We implemented it with our in-house team based on Oracle's best practices documents. With virtualization, we recommend to first define a standard on how to deploy and then to deploy using that standard, avoiding any variation. There are so many options, but our favorite is the fully-virtualized LDom with applications installed into Solaris Zones.

When buying a server from Oracle, all the software is included -- OS, virtualization and patches. There are no hidden costs. We like the long life cycle of Solaris and the SPARC servers. There's no need to replace the hardware every two to three years, and we have a life cycle of five years and more.

Use deployment tools for automation and avoid doing everything manually. Deployment tools help to avoid errors and create a standardized environment.

I primarily use Solaris for installing software application servers like WebLogic.

Solaris' best feature is its stability.

There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked.

I've been working with Solaris for seven years.

Solaris' stability and reliability is one of its best features.

Solaris is scalable.

Oracle's technical support is good but slow.

I previously worked with Red Hat.

Solaris is highly priced compared to other solutions, but since it's a niche product, this is to be expected.

I would give Solaris a rating of eight out of ten.