1. The Solaris 8 Operating System has reached the end of its shipping life. Its end of service life will be March 31, 2012. More info about the Solaris 8 transition is available at: Solaris 8 Transition Information Customers are encouraged to upgrade to and use the Oracle Solaris 10 operating system.
2. Solaris 8 Solaris is the UNIX-based operating system of Sun Microsystems with roots in the BSD operating system family. Up to the version 3.x this operating system was called SunOS, this name was kept into the internal release information of current Solaris versions.

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Migration to an Oracle Solaris Zone on an Oracle Solaris 10 Host. Migration to an Oracle Solaris Zone on an Oracle Solaris 11 Host. The utility has the following capabilities: Analysis of the Oracle Solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and Oracle Solaris Operating system features in use. Analysis of application binaries.

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• 3 GB of free disk space required
• High-speed Internet connection
• DVD Writeable Drive
• Blank media: 1 DVD+R or DVD-R
• Software capable of transferring ISO images to media

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You can directly burn the .iso file you downloaded using your DVD creation software. Make sure you select the option in your DVD creation software to 'create a DVD from an iso image'. Use the type of media supported by your DVD burner. There are DVD-R/DVD-RW as well as DVD+R/DVD+RW recordable DVDs. Not all DVD burners support both. Do not use DVD+R DL (dual layer) discs.

Oracle Solaris 10 Virtual Machine Downloads

There are a variety of types of VMs for Oracle Solaris, for both
SPARC and x86 architectures.

Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 DVD media kit

You can order a media kit that includes DVD install media for both SPARC and X86 systems.

Oracle Solaris Zones Preflight System Checker

This utility evaluates an Oracle Solaris 10 host for migration into an Oracle Solaris Zone. The following migration scenarios are supported:

• Migration to an Oracle Solaris Zone on an Oracle Solaris 10 Host.
• Migration to an Oracle Solaris Zone on an Oracle Solaris 11 Host.

The utility has the following capabilities:

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• Analysis of the Oracle Solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and Oracle Solaris Operating system features in use.
• Analysis of application binaries.
• Analysis of running applications.
• Generation of a template Oracle Solaris Zone configuration to use on the target host.

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