Oracle Solaris Initial Setup

DF
Infrastructure as a Service Manager

This solution is very straightforward and simple, even for a Linux admin.

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Zandile Mushi - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Mzansi Security and Fire

The product's initial setup phase was easy.

I took care of the installation on a couple of PCs when I was initially administering the interface. Whenever there's a backlog queue, and someone comes to me and tells me that the files are not going through or we can't get anything out, I see that there is a backlog, and I go to it. I am used to doing the product's installations.

The solution is deployed on the private cloud.

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Abdul-Salam - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - System Analyst (Datacenter Infrastructure) at Sohar International

The solution's initial setup is very simple and straightforward. 

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RajanChauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Service Delivery Manager at LTIMINDTREE

Regarding the setup, if you say the application, it is pretty easy.

The solution can be deployed on Linux, Oracle, or Azure and not on IEX.


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WB
Service Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward.

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GO
CEO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

In the latest versions, the initial setup is not very complex. Solaris is normally of two variants. There is the SPARC variant and there is the Intel variant. 

With the implementation, the steps and procedures are very clear. You just install more if you're installing in SPARC or if you're installing it on an Oracle hardware.

It's very easy to install due to the fact that all the patches are there, unlike other products where you have to put apart from this other side of all these. With this solution, everything is there, so it's very straightforward. The implementation is very, very straightforward, and simple by the way.

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Ikh-Erdene Namsrai - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at Mongolian Mining Corporation

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes three hours time.

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YA
IT Project Manager at Awash International Bank

The initial setup was straightforward with the help of Oracle documentation and took one day.

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TR
Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

The initial setup was straightforward.

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MK
Senior Manager IT Operations at NRSP microfinance Bank

We have a pretty complex environment and therefore had a pretty complex setup.

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EO
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data

Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize, and it takes a few hours to complete. One executive is required to work on the deployment and maintenance.

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JC
Group manager at Computer center

The initial setup of Oracle Solaris is straightforward.

The deployment took a longer time than normal since we did not receive support from Oracle which was frustrating. It took approximately two months.

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HR
Consultant at Hollomey Consultant GmbH

The initial setup is easy. It takes around 30 minutes to an hour to install it on a new computer. It requires one admin executive to work on the process.

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AS
Deputy IT Manager at ICAPP (Americana Group)

Its installation is not easy. It was installed a long ago. It didn't take a long time.

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DA
Oracle ACE - Specialized in Systems Technologies at Telecom Argentina

When I decided the work on the Solaris platform, it was a personal decision. I didn't stop other Unix systems becuase of the complexity of these OS's, but rather by a timely challenge I had to build a cluster between 2 nodes of SunFire 6800. After that the E25k servers arrived and then the virtualization , and I liked working on Solaris more each time.

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CF
KYC Quality Assurance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

When we were installing this product, it was straightforward. We haven't installed one in a while. It used to be maintained by our network team but as it's now a legacy product for us, we do not have dedicated staff to take care of it.

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it_user488784 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

To me, installation doesn’t seem complex, but at the same time comprehensive understanding of technology is required.

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Alibek Amaev - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager / DevOps at StarLine

The initial setup can be complex if you don't have a lot of experience. The deployment can take anywhere from days to months.

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it_user490857 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Systems Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Solaris 11 had its challenges, being a new OS & again with the limited knowledge outside of the subscription world and its adaptability rate.

Solaris 10 was not too complex to deploy.

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Marcel Hofstetter - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle ACE Director "Solaris " / CEO / Enterprise Consultant at JomaSoft

The initial setup is straightforward. Oracle has in-depth admin manuals. To speed up deployments, we implemented our own deployment and management framework VDCF.

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Youssef  Hmani - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Assistant at EOCD

The initial setup process is difficult and needs technical skills. It takes a few days to complete the implementation of all the parameters.

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it_user521556 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Architect at Ally Financial Inc.

It was a new technology. Some learning curve was involved, but after we understood how to deploy it and how to use, it worked out quite well.

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Fatih Gedikli - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA Team Lead | Principal Apps DBA at Experteam

The initial setup was fairly straightforward.

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it_user431682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Malware Reseacher, Instructor, Consultant and Speaker at BlackStormSecurity

The initial setup was not complex in any way. All Solaris implementations are extremely straightforward, easy to install, and well documented. Most Solaris commands are kept from older versions, which is a big advantage because we can reuse past knowledge.

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MA
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

You either buy Oracle Solaris to install it on your hardware, or you get the hardware. Most of the people making the right decision would get the hardware with the SPARC-based architecture.

I did the installation of Oracle Solaris in a lab at home. I did some very small tests. It installs similar to a Linux or Unix installation, they all have the same procedure. It was not complex for me but it would be for others without experience.

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it_user491505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President - (Unix) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

In my experience, we mostly moved up from older hardware running Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 on new hardware. Complexities came in the form of an upgraded version of Veritas Cluster and volume manager or storage migration. Solaris itself didn't create any issues at OS level.

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it_user429384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Install is simple, the OS is preinstalled on the servers. Installing from ISO is simple,and Oracle also has several VMs you can download and deploy.

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it_user452595 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant: Unix and Clusters (Orange UNIX Engineering) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Migration is always a challenging step, if you want everything to be the same as it is running on an existing environment. AIX to Solaris or Linux to Solaris or vice versa is always a job to be performed with extra precaution, as you are going to play with your data.

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it_user522021 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at Bureau of labor statistics

It was pretty straightforward. It depends on the skill set of the people working with it. I think, for us, we have a group of people that have been working on the operation of the system for a long time.

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PA
Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Installation is complex and it takes up to two days. To install and configure Solaris to meet the average customer's requirements takes two or three engineers.

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it_user588831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Fairly straightforward. Storage seems to be the most complicated part when dealing with physical servers.

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it_user490869 - PeerSpot reviewer
OSS Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I find that Solaris had a more difficult learning curve compared to Linux. Partly because there was a much wider Linux community, which is still true today.

I wouldn’t call it complex, but definitely when I started to work with Solaris in 2003, I found a few surprises. At that time, I had Linux administration experience.

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it_user492567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Consultant / Infrastructure Platform Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I’ve never done anything straightforward. I tend to specialise in the complex deployments, putting them together in such a way that they actually become simple to manage with the minimal of skills.

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SK
senior managed consultant at a tech services company

Initial setup is very simple and clean.

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it_user417540 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Technical Systems Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial migration project came with lots of organizational challenges, but from a technical perspective, the well-organized “My Oracle Support” and attached community provided the needed answers to go along with a successful pilot environment. From that point on, we needed only to be patient, trigger and organize interactions between various teams, and solve performance issues related to layers other than the OS.

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it_user488778 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Because we have designed our boxes in a very complex way, the setup took some time and it’s not a straightforward (click, click) setup. It requires skills to create a well-functioning environment. That is why people who have never worked with Solaris or had “one date” with it should never set up any Solaris box.

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it_user521721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Database Administration/Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The upgrades are pretty straightforward, now-a-days. You can do live upgrades and things like that pretty well.

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