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Oracle ACE Director "Solaris " / CEO / Enterprise Consultant at JomaSoft
Consultant
Top 5
It includes two virtualization solutions: LDoms for SPARC and Solaris Zones. Both solutions can be combined to create private clouds.

What is our primary use case?

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

How has it helped my organization?

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.

What is most valuable?

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

What needs improvement?

Patching without downtime would be nice.

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

For how long have I used the solution?

More than 11 years now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We had no issues with the stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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

How are customer service and support?

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.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

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.

How was the initial setup?

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

What about the implementation team?

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.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

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.

What other advice do I have?

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

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Other
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We're an ISV Partner of Oracle. I'm nominated as an Oracle ACE Director for Solaris.
Senior Architect at Temenos AG
Real User
Used as the base to set up a Kubernetes cluster for internal testing purposes
Pros and Cons
  • "I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house."
  • "The initial system setup or network configuration of the solution is not straightforward and can be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house. We used the solution to set up a Kubernetes cluster for internal testing purposes, and it's running smoothly. I used the solution to integrate with K3s Kubernetes Distribution, which worked perfectly.

What is most valuable?

I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house.

What needs improvement?

The initial system setup or network configuration of the solution is not straightforward and can be improved. You have to go forward and back with several screens in the setup tool.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using openSUSE Leap for 12 to 15 months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution's stability and reliability are perfect, and the systems are up and running.

I rate the solution ten out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Around 20 people in my department are using the solution.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for scalability.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have previously used CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

How was the initial setup?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a seven out of ten.

What about the implementation team?

Setting up the first server took me roughly two days. We created some Ansible scripts for the setup, which dramatically sped up the other two. Setting up the second and third servers took me around half a day.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

openSUSE Leap is a free and open-source solution.

What other advice do I have?

We use the solution's YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) for things we're not used to, but I prefer using a command line for general things. The software and hardware compatibility of openSUSE Leap are good compared to the operating systems we've used. Previously, we used a lot of CentOS, and we have had no issues with either of them.

The solution allows you to make an on-prem experience using Kubernetes. It's very easy to set up Kubernetes using the K3s distribution, which fits perfectly with an openSUSE Leap server.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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