Solaris 9 4/03 Offers Enhanced Data Storage Scalab

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Sun Microsystems released the Solaris 9 4/03 Operating System for the SPARC and x86 platforms. The third update to the Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 9 4/03 offers enhanced data storage scalability, allowing Solaris sites to use larger storage systems than ever before via the Solaris Volume Manager. Read more for additional features.

Major new additions in Solaris 9 4/03 include:

- New advances in data storage scalability, enabling Solaris sites to use larger storage systems than ever before via the Solaris Volume Manager.

- The newly released Sun Management Center 3.5 is a significant improvement in Sun's system management software, enabling sysadmins to effectively manage larger numbers of machines.

- Netscape 7.0 adds numerous new web-browsing and email features for Solaris users, bringing the very best internet access tools to the Solaris desktop.

- Finally, additional language support makes Solaris an even better global platform for service delivery, both as a server and as a desktop system.


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Solaris upgrade supports larger storage systems

Sun Microsystems has updated its Solaris operating system to support larger storage systems, among other improvements.

Solaris 9 4/03 for systems using Sun's SPARC processors and x86 processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is Sun's first update for Solaris 9 this year, an upgrade from version 9 12/02 released in December last year.

Updating will allow users to have up to two petabytes, or two million Gbytes, of storage in a single volume, as opposed to the one terabyte limit on storage imposed by the Solaris Volume Manager in the older versions of Solaris, said Bill Moffitt, group manager for Solaris product management at Sun.

Breaking the one terabyte limit is a significant step after the introduction of the Solaris Volume Manager in May 2002 and the introduction of an improved Unix file system in Solaris in December last year, according to Moffitt.

The Solaris update includes several dozen changes including support for several regional languages used in India and support for inputting Chinese characters, Sun said.

Coming in June is version 3.5 of the Sun Management Center, an application that allows administrators to better manage a large number of machines, Moffitt said.

The upgrade to 9 4/03 is free for current Solaris 9 users and is available on Sun's website.


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