What Is Solaris?
Solaris is a Unix-based operating system written by Sun Microsystems in 1992. Its components are a mix of open- and closed-source software, though an all-open-source version, OpenSolaris, also exists.
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Origin
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Solaris is based on the Unix operating system.
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CPU Architecture
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Solaris supports both the SPARC and x86 architectures. Solaris runs on Intel's common x86 architecture, but also on Sun's own SPARC server architecture.
Features
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One of the primary features of Solaris is its hardware scalability, with an emphasis on multiprocessing, particularly on servers that have dozens or hundreds of central processing units.
File System
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Solaris uses the ZFS file system. This file system uses a pooled storage model, data scrubbing, automatic backup, and numerous features for running multiple virtual machines on the same physical machine.
Containers
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Solaris supports Solaris Containers. Solaris Containers isolate applications and services within their own, configurable virtual environments, so each program believes itself to be the only running program on a dedicated system. This helps stop errors and crashes in one application from affecting other parts of the system.
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