Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support
Just a reminder - Solaris 9 has entered vintage support now. The new kernel patch 122300-61/122301-60 is the first one that requires Vintage Solaris support for download and is therefore not available via a standard Solaris support contract. Those of you which still run Solaris 9 systems might want to keep a copy of the patchdiag.xref from Oct/31/11. Very nice of the Oracle folks to release a kernel patch update immediately after the thing requires vintage support. Personally I have yet to meet a single IT manager or site admin that cares about Solaris anymore. Heck, you can not even get compiler patches so why bother to do dev work for Solaris. Dennis -- -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindexsearch=0x1D936C72FA35B44B +-+---+ | Dennis Clarke | Solaris and Linux and Open Source | | dcla...@blastwave.org | Respect for open standards. | +-+---+
Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support
Hi, The latest Solaris 9 KUs will not require an Extended Support contract. We have put an exception in place for these KUs as they were in the our pipeline before Solaris 9 entered Extended support. The only other patch that will be treated similarly is 115553-31, due to be released later today. Best, -Don On 04/11/11 07:23, Martin Paul wrote: Just a reminder - Solaris 9 has entered vintage support now. The new kernel patch 122300-61/122301-60 is the first one that requires "Vintage Solaris" support for download and is therefore not available via a standard Solaris support contract. Those of you which still run Solaris 9 systems might want to keep a copy of the patchdiag.xref from Oct/31/11. Martin. Martin Paul wrote: Solaris 9 will transition to "Vintage" Support at the end of October. This means that any Solaris 9 patches (or patch revisions) released from Nov 1st onwards will require "Vintage" support level. Details on Gerry Haskins' blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_9_transitioning_to_extended -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com
Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support
On 04/11/11 16:24, Don O'Malley wrote: Hi, The latest Solaris 9 KUs will not require an Extended Support contract. Let me rephrase... The latest Solaris 9 KUs should not require an Extended Support contract. We hit a minor bug with our entitlement code, which we've now corrected. These patches will become available under standard Solaris support overnight. Apologies for the confusion. Best, -Don We have put an exception in place for these KUs as they were in the our pipeline before Solaris 9 entered Extended support. The only other patch that will be treated similarly is 115553-31, due to be released later today. Best, -Don On 04/11/11 07:23, Martin Paul wrote: Just a reminder - Solaris 9 has entered vintage support now. The new kernel patch 122300-61/122301-60 is the first one that requires "Vintage Solaris" support for download and is therefore not available via a standard Solaris support contract. Those of you which still run Solaris 9 systems might want to keep a copy of the patchdiag.xref from Oct/31/11. Martin. Martin Paul wrote: Solaris 9 will transition to "Vintage" Support at the end of October. This means that any Solaris 9 patches (or patch revisions) released from Nov 1st onwards will require "Vintage" support level. Details on Gerry Haskins' blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_9_transitioning_to_extended -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com
[pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support
Solaris 9 will transition to Vintage Support at the end of October. This means that any Solaris 9 patches (or patch revisions) released from Nov 1st onwards will require Vintage support level. Details on Gerry Haskins' blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_9_transitioning_to_extended BTW - when that happened with Solaris 8, I heard that Vintage support is very expensive. Did anybody ever buy and use that? Martin.
Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support
@my company we weighed our options. it made more sense for us to move to version 10 than pay for extra support for version maintenance. Ggr On Oct 19, 2011 8:11 AM, Chuck Floyd ch...@cmfloyd.com wrote:
Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support
Yes, Worked with them several times. Was not really a good experience but he could be that they did not understand the T3 storage systems here in Belgium. Hospital was down for more then a day before i came and started the reinstallation of the whole system because they managed to screw it up completly. Regards Filip Francis On 10/19/11 15:35, Thomas Gouverneur wrote: Anyone ever heard of Osiatis company that looks like a resseler of support contract for outdated systems ? My customer think of moving to such support contract as it's cheaper than Oracle ones. Any return of experience ? Rgds, Thomas On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:16:27 -0400 Rajiv Gunjaopn.src.ro...@gmail.com wrote: @my company we weighed our options. it made more sense for us to move to version 10 than pay for extra support for version maintenance. Ggr On Oct 19, 2011 8:11 AM, Chuck Floydch...@cmfloyd.com wrote:
Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support
Fred wrote: We did the same thing. I do miss how fast Solaris 8 would reboot on our old V100's - down and up in 90 seconds. With Solaris 10 it takes about 4 minutes. Worry not, Solaris 11's fast reboot can boot a host as quickly as a zone. Default behaviour for a reboot is to skip the POST. Fred V100's won't run Solaris 11, and they don't run POST on a reboot anway. POST on our V100's takes about 45 seconds...a bit longer if they have more memory. -- Jeff Wieland| Purdue University Network Systems Administrator |ITNS Data Networks Voice: (765)496-8234 |155 S. Grant Street FAX: (765)494-6620| West Lafayette, IN 47907-2115
