The sunray server software is easy to install on solaris 10, and tricky to install on solaris 11 express. Opensolaris an open source operating system based on solaris created by sun microsystems. Jun 03, 2010 sun ray server software srss, on the other end, is a server software available for solaris and linux which gives sun ray clients remote access to an unix desktop session. The oracle solaris engineering team works with both oracle database and java engineering teams, resulting in twentyfold faster database startup times. How to install java in solaris 11 or solaris 11 zones unknown. This document describes the use of sun ray services under sparc solaris. The utpkgcheck command uses the repository uri that is configured for the solaris package publisher. Bigadmin submitted tech tip system log rotation utilizing logadm for solaris 9, solaris 10 by kristopher march today, most system administrators are looking for ways to maximize their time at work and are always finding new and efficient ways of carrying out their daily tasks. If you have no internet connection on your solaris machine, you can nevertheless download the whole solaris 11 repository from the same location where you download the media you already used look for oracle solaris 11. The builtin solaris tool, logadm, is one way to do so.
May 22, 2014 using wget to download a support patch from oracle support site. I prefer solaris 11 because i use sunray thin clients. It was based on solaris, which was originally released by sun in 1991. Its available via pkg update from the support repository or by downloading the sru from my oracle support doc id 2433412. Policy mariadb excel windows 7 help desk ssh solaris 11 windows 2012 r2 windows 8 jailbreak. All of the labs in the series have these prerequisites in common. You can boot directly off the iso image to a full desktop environment. Can i download solaris packages directly from opencsw. Sun solaris software free download sun solaris top 4 download. Oct 20, 2017 last tuesday, october 17th 2017, oracle solaris 11. On my solaris pc, i can startup several bridged vms. This guide describes how to install, configure, and manage sun ray software.
Gday, since the sun download center was decommissioned earlier on july 31, 2011, i ve lost track at oracles website. Nov 17, 2016 opensolaris an open source operating system based on solaris created by sun microsystems. This guide provides instructions for installing the oracle solaris 11 operating system. For more information on sun ray operating software, including packaging, download changes, and support requirements, refer to the sun ray operating software faq. How to install sun ray ultrathinclient on solaris 11 express. A problem i had yesterday lead to a bit more of a writeup in this saga. Discover the new capabilities of oracle solaris in our documentation. Also i was doing this with selinux disabled and we already had working sunrays with solaris 10 so i cant really comment on the dhcp configs or any special network acls we may have in place. If you need to know when support will be added for solaris 11, contact your sales account team. For example, drivers for some legacy devices have been deprecated in oracle solaris 11. Here we will see the learning path for oracle solaris 11. The failover group is configured as one primary server and one secondary server. How to download and install unix solaris os on virtualbox. Sep 12, 2007 solaris 10 update 807 has been released and available for download.
Sun ray software srs is available for the solaris and linux operating systems. I had noticed some blog postings about a new release of sun ray software out 5. Solaris delivers builtin investment protection and new technologies that are even better suited to data intensive environments where price. Since were only running solaris on our machines, sun ray server software and sun rays are the quickest way to go to provide a low cost and effective desktop to all of our. First, i tried ipadm and i could get static ip successfully. This use is limited to developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating applications using solaris, but the terms are loose enough that pretty much any personal, noncommercial, nonproduction use is allowed.
How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 by admin when you install the new solaris 11 x86 box in your production environment or in lab environment under vmware workstation, you would not find the gui desktop as you would have got for connecting solaris 10 x86 server. Get the latest resources from presentations to howto videos. Oracle solaris 11 oracle technology network oracle. Package names that are nonbold andor with no version number, are not currently available for this version of solaris. Just got a sun ray 3i and was planning on using a t31 to install the sun. That last number in the fun facts is interesting because that number is a small subset of applications that will run on oracle solaris 11. Use the following command to install the additional packages on an oracle solaris 11 server. Installing a package in solaris 11 but no solaris 11 repo access and incremental repo shows dependency failures. Jun 07, 2012 the short answer is yes, with limits, solaris 11 can be used without fee for personal, noncommercial, nonproduction use. Installing solaris 11 x86 step by step tech support. I did this acollect some data like id sysid,disks,ip,etcon solaris10 ok bcreate this g with this command on solaris 10 zonep2vchk c migrationg ok ccreate the archive flash on solaris10 1 reply.
When you click this link on the page, solaris iso file will get downloaded. It doesnt include applications that will run on oracle solaris 11 that were designed and build for oracle solaris 10 nor 8 and 9 for that matter. Starting from the closed source base of solaris 10, solaris was gradually opensourced, mostly under the cddl license. Install sunray server downloadable for free and install it on solaris. Recently i had a dba at an ioug event complain that they were unable to install from the solaris 11. A new download page will load where you can then download the installation software. Fresh install of solaris 11 express tested on x86 arch srs 5. The original can be downloaded from the solaris 11 page at oracle. Drivers for fuse and ntfsexfat flash drives on solaris 11 sparc with sunray software myaut solaris sparcfuse.
Ask the sun ray administrator to download the correct firmware authentication manager errors. This experience is very similar to other linux livecd or livedvd installations. For detailed instructions, see downloading a sun ray software release update. This lab is the first is a series of labs for oracle solaris 11. They had seen me demo openstack a few weeks ago, and wanted to know how to install solaris 11. List of official solaris 11 packages from pkg note that the list is not complete. Specifically, those customers having issues with vdisks going offline, preventing guest domains from booting after upgrading to solaris 11. Solaris 11 53 opensolaris 49 zfs 45 linux 35 intel 31 illumos 29 apple 27 ibm 25. There is sun ray server software srss, last at version 5. However, i was able to noodle through it and got things running. Meaning we need a full repo also to meet dependencies. What you want is the oracle solaris 11 11 11 repository image, which comes in two parts that can be combined using cat. The road to solaris 11 has been a particularly long and winding one, of course.
For detailed instructions, see downloading a sun ray software product pack. But the sun ray 1 clients always got disconneted from the primary server after one or two days. Since i used to run our sunray clients on opensolaris, but switched to ubuntu, this is basically a test to see whats happened with solaris since my last visit. How to create and upgrade a solaris 11 local repository. Do not use sgdvdisrs for production use on solaris 11 at this time.
Only sustaining level support is currently available for sun ray software and oracle virtual desktop infrastructure. Solaris 11 is currently not a supported platform for sun ray swvdisgd. At the end, curiosity kills the cat and now srss is running on opensolaris. This version includes an improved admin gui and kiosk mode. There is the solaris 11 operating system which is an os for servers. There is a wiki that shows how to install on s11e, or consult the sunray mail list. I can be a royal pain to make it work for oi, but if it does, i can switch to oi. Srss is for solaris 10, in which case the installation is easy. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek diary. This document contains an index of all oracle solaris 11.
It focuses on userland packages and in this respect is should be complete. Both wireshark and gcc are standard solaris 11 packages. For a fresh installation, go to the oracle solaris 11 downloads site on oracle technology network otn to accept the license and download one of the oracle solaris 11. There was also firmware for the thin clients themselves, called something like sun ray operating system.
Aug 28, 2018 solaris 11 is fully supported on both sparc and x86, and it still has the best binary compatibility guarantee in the business. Process netbeans opensolaris opensparc openjdk osum. The latest update of the solaris os helps customers alleviate common enterprise problems such as virtualization, resource management, and system performance. Trouble is, that today i just bought a very neat sun ray 2fs and for setting this up i really do need to find the sun ray server software 4. This vm template is for use in oracle vm virtualbox, a crossplatform tool that runs on windows, linux, mac os x, and oracle solaris. For the list of service alerts affecting each oracle solaris 11. Oracle today announced availability of oracle solaris 11, the first cloud os. That software is more closely tied to solaris 11, than openindiana.
Select x86 live media, here is a iso file having the size of 1. However, i was able to noodle through it and got things. Installing with the text installer installing oracle. Solaris 11 repository media, if media is not available. But if you read the sunray mail list you can find information. But i just realized that when i actually try to download the software it just. Solaris 11 text install media, either iso image or cddvd. Downloading with wget from oracle edelivery using cookies. The utpkgcheck command uses the oracle solaris 11 image packaging system ips to install the additional packages. I had used oracle provided default configured solaris server vm image which you can download using the below link. The link you posted that states otherwise is outdated, being years old and anyway related to solaris 8 and older.
I installed oracle database 11gr2 on oracle solaris11 box using vm virtual machine, so id like to share my work with you. Installing oracle solaris 11 in a virtualized environment. Be prepared to update the systems to the last released support repository update sru for oracle solaris 11. Administering oracle databaseon oracle solaris 11 sru 4, the named subset of cpus is created through a feature. Solaris 10 11 06 solaris trusted extensions for printing.
Dynamic session resizing dynamic session resizing allows the remote desktop to be resized automatically to fit the optimized size of your local desktop. Hi, this release also resolves a critical issue that has impacted customers running oracle vm server for sparc aka ldoms. Installing srss can be a pain on solaris 11, or solaris 11 express. In this lab, you will learn how to install the oracle solaris 11. If you upgrade systems with these devices, you might lose the ability to access those devices from oracle solaris 11. So, for the benefit of the few that m the unix and linux forums. Solaris 11 doesnt allow you to use root as a user to login, oracle has changed root from user to role and you must create any user to login to oracle solaris and then su root to switch administrator mode wherever required provide computer name as well and then click next. The list is also available in xls spreadsheet format. Going back to windowed mode produces the remaining screens. Oracle has announced the release of oracle solaris 11, a unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems and known for its scalability and innovative enterprise features. Installing oracle solaris 11 on vmware view more tutorials. Installing sunray software server srss on centos 5. Select the radio button for the sun ray software 5.
My zfs pool will stay on a low number, so i can switch between oi and solaris 11. However, popular packages are updated frequently and by subscriber request, more up to date packages may be also be present for other versions of solaris. The sun ray from oracle is a stateless thin client solution aimed at corporate environments. Describes how to use the text installer to install the current oracle solaris 11. Sun solaris software free download sun solaris top 4 download offers free software downloads for windows, mac, ios and android computers and mobile devices. If it doesnt work the first time try uninstalling and resintalling the sunray software.
Sun ray server software srss, on the other end, is a server software available for solaris and linux which gives sun ray clients remote access to an unix desktop session. In order to install solaris on vmware, its best to download solaris as an iso file. This guide describes how to install from live media, how to use the text installer, and how to perform client installations over the network. No way to install a flar archive of solaris 10 to solaris 11. One of the best ways to initially evaluate oracle solaris 11 is simply to download the live media for x86. To learn more about support repositories, see support repositories explained. Oracle solaris 11 is designed to meet the security, performance and scalability. When the page will open, under the downloads tab you will see different options to download solaris os. Nov 21, 2010 installed a virtualbox machine tonight, on the labserver which runs ubuntu 10. By default, oracle solaris 11 is configured to be secure and does not accept direct x11 connections from other machines by using the tcp protocol. Audio output through pulseaudio for oracle solaris 11 and oracle linux 6 the pulseaudio sound server is used to provide audio output for desktop client sessions when using oracle solaris 11 and oracle linux 6 sun ray servers. A gotcha that bit me a few months after the transition and a good story about upgrading to the new sun ray software.
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