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	Availability	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	Intel Xeon CPU/Memory Fault Management
	AMD64 CPU/Memory Fault Management
	Predictive Self Healing : PCI Express support
	Predictive Self Healing: Solaris Fault Manager
	Predictive Self Healing: Solaris Service Manager
	Predictive Self-Healing: SNMP Support
	Logical Domains Fault Management
	Sun Fire X4500 SATA Drive Fault Management
	UltraSPARC III / IV / IV+ CPU/Memory Fault Mgmt
	UltraSPARC T1/T2 CPU/Memory Fault Management
	Driver Fault Injection
	Sun Cluster Software Framework
	Faster Reboot
	System Crash Dump Utility
	NFS Client Failover
	Dynamic Reconfiguration

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	Data Management	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	ZFS boot
	ZFS as a root file system
	iSCSI Target support
	ZFS volume as a Solaris iSCSI target device
	Solaris ZFS Double Parity (RAIDZ)
	Hot Spares for ZFS Storage Pool Devices
	Solaris ZFS File System Clone Promotion
	Solaris ZFS Recursive Snapshots
	Solaris ZFS Upgrade Storage Pools
	Solaris ZFS File System Monitoring Tool
	Solaris ZFS File System clear zpool device errors
	Solaris ZFS File System recover destroyed zpools
	Solaris ZFS Support for Compact NFSv4 ACL format
	Solaris ZFS File System zpool offline
	Solaris ZFS integration with Fault Manager
	Solaris ZFS file system
	Solaris ZFS Web-based management
	iSCSI
	iSCSI logout support
	iSCSI Multiple session target (MS/T) support
	NFSv4
	Solaris Volume Manager: Dist set import / export
	Cluster Volume Manager
	EFI Labels
	Solaris Volume Manager: Multiterabyte Volumes
	Solaris Volume Manager: Top-down Volume Creation
	Multiterabyte UFS File Systems
	UFS Snapshots
	Solaris Volume Manager: Soft Disk Partitions
	Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Software
	UFS Logging
	Network File System

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	Install/Upgrade	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	Solaris Live Upgrade: Container support
	GRUB bootloader (x86 platform)
	Solaris JumpStart Software: Flash Archive Support
	Solaris JumpStart Software: Mirrored Volume Support
	WAN Boot (SPARC platform)
	Sun Update Manager/smpatch
	Solaris Flash Software

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	Networking/Interoperability	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	SIP
	Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) client-side support
	Open Printing API (PAPI) commands
	VNC Client/Server support
	Quagga routing suite
	Reliable Datagram Sockets
	Large Send Offload
	Multi-MAC address support
	Source-Filtered Multicasting
	OSPFv2 and BGP-4 Routing Protocols
	SCTP
	Sendmail: MILTER Support
	NFSv4
	Directory and Application Server Integration
	Network Layer Redundancy
	RIP v2
	Bundled GCC
	Samba
	Mobile IP
	IPMP
	Solaris WBEM Services
	IPv6
	Java Platform Support
	DHCP
	SNMP
	Network Time Protocol
	TCP Large Windows
	Sendmail
	Directory Services
	Standards Support
	FTP
	DNS/BIND
	Linux Compatibility

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	Observability	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace)
	DTrace Java support
	Kernel Modular Debugger
	Per-thread Monitoring in truss/pstack/pflags
	Java Stack Frame Monitoring Tool
	Libumem: Memory Debugging Features
	Intelligent Platform Monitoring Interface (IPMI)
	Gcore Enhancements
	/proc: Open File Name Information
	Patch Analysis Engine
	Process Accounting and Statistics
	Modular Debugger
	Coreadm
	/proc: Watchpoints
	Sun Validation Test Suite (SunVTS)

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	Performance	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	Intel NUMA support
	Intel SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 support
	AMD SSE4A support
	UltraSPARC T2 Shared Contexts
	Intel CPUID support
	Intel MONITOR/MWAIT support
	Network (UDP) Performance
	Network (TCP/IP) Performance
	Improved Perf. with Large #s of Network Interfaces
	Event Ports
	Atomic libc Operations
	InfiniBand
	10 Gigabit Ethernet
	Network Layer 7 Cache (NL7C)
	Hyperthreading Support
	Intel SSE/SSE2 Instruction Optimizations
	Libumem Memory Allocator
	Threading Library Improvement
	Memory Placement Optimization (MPO)
	Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS)
	Large Page and Giant Page support
	TCP Multidata Transmit Support
	Chip Multithreading (CMT) Support
	Remote Shared Memory API (RSMAPI)
	Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA) - this one is replaced by Network 7 Layer Cache (N7LC).
	mkfs Performance
	Page Coloring
	Enhanced DNLC
	CPU Performance Counters
	Large Concurrent Process (100,000+) Support
	Solaris 64-bit Computing Environment

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	Platform Choice	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	PCI Express support
	SATA support
	IEEE 1394-based digital camera driver
	AGPgart driver for x86 systems
	64-bit AMD64   &   Intel EM64T Support
	Certification Test Suite
	Guaranteed Compatibility
	Industry-Leading ISV Support
	SPARC Platform Support
	X86 Platform Support

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	Security	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	UltraSPARC T2 ECC acceleration
	Solaris Trusted Extensions
	Secure By Default Networking
	Solaris IP Filter IPv6 support
	SSL acceleration
	Solaris Cryptographic Framework Library
	Password History, Lockout, Complexity Checking
	Non-Login Accounts
	Solaris Basic Audit and Reporting Tool (BART)
	Process Rights Management
	Secure Execution: Signed ELF Objects
	Secure Execution: Verification and Signing Tools
	Solaris IP Filter Firewall
	OpenSSL, PKCS#11, NSS, JCE
	SASL
	SPNEGO
	Per-Zone Auditing
	Solaris Secure Shell Software
	IPSec With Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
	TCP Wrappers
	Secure LDAP
	Flexible Installation
	IKE
	Extensible Password Encryption
	Random Number Generator
	Extended File Attributes
	Solaris Smart Card Framework
	GSS-API
	Solaris Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Software
	Kerberos
	Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAMs)
	Mitigation of Buffer Overflow Attacks
	RPSEC-GSS

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	Usability	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	AMD64 Power Management
	Intel 64 Power Management
	Flash Player
	Pidgin
	Locale Creator
	Traditional Chinese Chewing input support
	PDA Support
	PostgreSQL
	Automated system registration
	RealPlayer
	Sun Update Connection
	Sun Java Desktop System Integration
	Sun Java Web Console
	Webmin
	Solaris Web Start Wizards Software
	Sun Management Center Software
	SPARC Power Management
	Perl
	Accessibility
	Globalization	162 Locales	162 Locales	121 Locales	97 Locales

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	Virtualization	Solaris 10	Solaris 9	Solaris 8	Solaris 7
	Xen-based paravirtualization guest support for network and disk
	Solaris Containers update on attach
	Solaris Containers on a ZFS root file system
	Logical Domains support for disk and network Dynamic Reconfiguration
	CPU caps
	IP instances
	Solaris Containers for Linux Applications
	LAN and VLAN Separation for Non-Global Zones
	Container rename and move
	Container clone
	Container migrate
	Configurable provileges for Containers
	Logical Domains for CoolThreads Servers
	Solaris Containers: Zones
	Solaris Containers: Dynamic System V IPC Controls
	Solaris Containers: Resource Capping (Phys. Mem. Ctl.)
	Solaris Containers: Solaris Resource Manager
	Solaris Containers: IP Quality of Service (IPQoS)
	Solaris Containers: Tasks, Projects, and Accounting
	Reconfiguration Coordination Manager (RCM)
	Solaris Containers: Dynamic Resource Pools
	Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration
	Dynamic System Domains (DSD)

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