
I guess its time to dump sun hardware forever
Not only are the older systems out of the running on 11.4, it now appears they have less than a year of useful life left on 11.3. This includes systems that they were selling new less than 6 years ago. The last patches for Solars 9 were 3 years ago and that would run on hardware made in 1995. Solaris 11.3 was back to the point of being useful as a server after the Solaris 10 mess and the ZFS stuff is far ahead of what is running in Linux today.