Solaris 10 Update 5 Beta
It´s too late to apply for the beta program, but this page gives a nice overview about some of the upcoming new features in Update 5 of Solaris 10:
- Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP)
SDP is the industry standard protocol for delivering Sockets-based networking over Infiniband. - Persistent Group Reservation for iSCSI target
Defines how cluster nodes are reserved and released and maintains state/data when a node fails. Cool, support for cluster storage on Solaris iSCSI is on it´s way... - iSNS Client for iSCSI target
Client for the Internet Storage Name Service - IP addressing ability for IBTF interfaces
Infiniband again. A number of IB Upper Level Protocols (e.g. RDS, SDP, NFS) require an interface for IP address resolution that meets the RDMA IP CM Service specification in the InfiniBand Architecture Specification 1.2 Annex. - SAS multipathing support
Solaris multipathing (Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager, also known as MPxIO) support has been added to the Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) protocol by extending mpt(7D) driver to utilize the existing MPxIO framework. - Capping CPU resource usage
This feature allows applications to run on any CPU while limiting their CPU usage and provide fine-grained (specified in fractions of a CPU) limits.