We use Oracle Solaris to develop and support our VDCF (Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework) management and monitoring software. Several virtual machines (LDoms and Zones) are used on SPARC and x86 Servers.
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It includes two virtualization solutions: LDoms for SPARC and Solaris Zones, both solutions can be combined to create private clouds
Pros and Cons
- "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."
- "Patching without downtime would be nice."
What is our primary use case?
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?
I have been using the solution for more than 14 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.
Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
OEM provides an easy way to reach the root cause of a problem and resolve it.
What is our primary use case?
Web services and environment status by ping service and SOAP & Restful web service request. check on JVM and other transaction monitoring.
How has it helped my organization?
This product helps to reach the cause of an outage or unstable system in production and in handling such situations. It provides an easy way to reach the root cause of the problem and to resolve it asap. It helps in CPU utilization monitoring as well as thread and memory management.it helps in building emergency respond team for monitoring team. At some point monitoring team does not need to engage operation team as feature like restart of server can done through this tool.
What is most valuable?
Max use was server monitoring and operations of applications. This helps handling of critical situations in a production and support for the customers.
What needs improvement?
Customization for double secure / nonce based / token based Business Transaction Management. Where you can monitor DB calls as well as Web service calls under firewall.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
No
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Yes... sometimes it does not trigger an alert in case of an issue. Trying to fix it with custom build changes.
How are customer service and support?
Customer Service:
2 on a scale of 1 to 5 (1=worst , 5=best)
Technical Support:
2 on a scale of 1 to 5 (1=worst, 5=best)
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We still have t-mart alert system. We switched to this one to monitor systems in detail. T-mart alert is just a replication of a user's behavior which does not show the cause of the issue.
How was the initial setup?
Straightforward with all necessary steps mention in the online documentation.
What about the implementation team?
Together as a one team. 3 on a scale of 5.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
License version..does not cost too much due to license and agreement between vendor and company.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
No. We use other Oracle products like Java, Weblogic Portal, Weblogic Server, Sun One web servers, Solaris servers and Linux.
What other advice do I have?
If you have a license contract with Oracle and if you have a lifetime agreement on service on any product from Oracle, then this product is worth using. Otherwise, it's best to explore the option of using an open-source product. Not worth it for start-up companies.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Last updated: May 29, 2025
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