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the reasons for suboptimal system and application performance. Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology
makes it possible to delve deeply into today’s complex systems to troubleshoot problems in real time and
quickly eliminate bottlenecks. Additional Solaris 10 features provide enhanced system insight, enabling a sys-
tem administrator to quickly identify and resolve hardware problems and streamline and automate patch man-
agement. Solaris Containers can also consolidate multiple applications onto a single system to increase utiliza-
tion rates and cut system and licensing costs.
Existing applications that adhere to the Solaris x64 OS application binary interface (ABI) and that are compiled
with the same APIs will run unmodified on x64 platforms. In addition, Sun provides an easy-to-use AppCert
testing tool for developers to verify existing Solaris OS application binaries and report any potential incompati-
bilities.

Interoperability

Understanding that businesses today rely on a mix of technologies from a variety of vendors, Solaris 10 pro-
vides tools to enable seamless interoperability with hundreds of heterogeneous hardware and software plat-
forms.

Availability

New Solaris 10 features, such as Predictive Self Healing, offer capabilities that automatically diagnose and
recover from hardware and application faults, maximizing system uptime.

Advanced Networking

Support for IPv6 in the Solaris OS is integrated into NFS, RPC, NIS, NIS+, and DNS. IPsec enables secure vir-
tual private networks and network access control. Mobile IP provides Internet disconnect/reconnect capabilities
with no data loss.
Bundled Software
Software bundled with the Solaris OS includes Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition, lxrun for Linux application compati-
bility (for the Solaris OS x64), Apache Web Server, Netscape Communicator, Sun Java System Directory
Server, gzip, bash, and tcsh.
The Solaris operating environment ships with a number of software components that increase overall availabil-
ity, including Solaris Resource Manager software for fine-grained control of system resources, Solaris Band-
width Manager software for enhanced network resource availability, and Sun Cluster 3.1 software for even
greater application availability through a clustered file system, scalable data services, and built-in load balanc-
ing.
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