Oracle offers migration path for Solaris 10 apps

Oracle has given Solaris 10 users an easier way to migrate their apps – to a more modern version of Solaris. The help comes in the form of sysdiff – a Python script that Big Red states will analyze a Solaris 10 rig to find the "binaries, libraries, modified data, and configuration files that are not part of Oracle Solaris 10 …

[Anonymous Coward]

Am confused by the grammar, not the technical solution....

Simmon, have you been playing with Quordle all weekend ?

"you'll need to migrate it a Solaris 10 branded zone"

is it a "it a" or is it a "it to a" ?

[-tim]

11.4 on what hardware?

11.4 won't run on anything we owned so it was off to FreeBSD for us. 11.3 had finally fixed the security issues I didn't like from 10 and ZFS was a game changer. Oddly enough there were still patches to Solaris 9 hiding on the solaris 10 container stuff the last time I checked a bit over a year ago. That still runs on SPARCstation 20 from 1994. That means you could have a nearly 30 year old computer that meets security compliance regulations if you could keep your applications patched.

We deracked a V100 last week. The thing was older some of our staff. It was removed because one of its original disks was going bad and we were pulling out a bunch of far newer systems. We still have one X1 in our internal R&D DNS cluster and will remain there until it fails which might be a while since it has flash IDE disk emulator.

I've got a tadpole Sparckbook 2 from 1993 that still works except for some of the keys are a bit of a problem.

[Paul Crawford]

Re: 11.4 on what hardware?

We had an old SPARC machine that ran with virtually no issue for around 15 years when it was finally retired around 5-10 years ago. After age around 10 if it ever was rebooted you had to use the cheat-sheet to get it to boot off the correct partition as the (soldered in) CMOS BIOS battery had gone. Sun hardware was really good then.

Last hardware we had was one of the Sun-turning-into-Oracle storage appliances, poor software that was not properly developed or bug-fixed and unresponsive support. Really, we would have been better with FreeNAS/TrueNAS on some cheaper hardware!

After then we ran down the Sun stuff as no intention of getting in to Oracle's grasp and Linux did everything well enough not to need it.

[CapeCarl]

Solaris put my two daughters (now ages 39 and 34) through college.

First Sun box (SunOS iirc): 1994.

Last Solaris box (for a big US bank): 2012.

[Plest]

My first job in 1993 was working on supporting desktop SPARC boxes with those fricking huge CRT monitors for CAD work. Moved to DEC, then SPARC as an Oracle DBA around 1997 and still working with SPARC boxes to this day supporting Oracle databases but now I'm doing more on the Windows/Linux front but something solid about Solaris, it just sits in the racks doing it's thing and very rarely bothers anyone.

[Anonymous Coward]

With a small tweak

Maybe sysdiff can tell you if your application will run on Linux?

[Plest]

Re: With a small tweak

Love linux, great O/S, doing more all the time but there's not much can beat the rock solid stability of a SPARC server. Once took one offline that had been up 921 days without a reboot. You just know when to log on to a SPARC box, you're standing on rock solid ground, I'll be sad when we shut down our last SPARC box in a year or two but ever onward and upward.

[Blank Reg]

Re: With a small tweak

That shouldn't be a surprise really given their primary markets were telecom and finance, both markets that bleed cash for every second of downtime.

[Anonymous Coward]

3rd parties?

If your 3rd party applications aren’t supported on Solaris 11 by the vendor you’re better off ditching Solaris. If they’re your own apps then why do you need a tool to migrate them ?