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PROS

Oracle Solaris offers rapid deployment of new environments and flexible migration between servers using its virtualization features.
It is known for its stability, operating in high-end server environments, and providing high availability and robustness.
Oracle Solaris excels in database performance, particularly with Oracle applications, supported by features like zones and containers.
The platform provides excellent backup capabilities, including incremental backup, contributing to its robust data security.
Oracle Solaris is praised for ease of use, scalability, and resource partitioning, making it ideal for optimizing hardware utilization in larger companies.

CONS

Oracle Solaris patching requires downtime, which users believe should not be necessary.
There are complaints about Oracle customer service being slow and unresponsive at times.
Oracle Solaris is considered complex and difficult for new users to learn, requiring more commands than Linux.
There are concerns about scalability, with users indicating it can be improved.
Users report that Oracle does not frequently release version updates for Oracle Solaris.
 

Oracle Solaris Pros review quotes

DA
Oracle ACE - Specialized in Systems Technologies at Telecom Argentina
Dec 17, 2020
I always recommend Solaris because of its robustness, high availability, scalability, virtualization, excellent support, security and very good hardware.
Marcel Hofstetter - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle ACE Director "Solaris " / CEO / Enterprise Consultant at JomaSoft
Jan 19, 2026
We are able to deploy new environments very quickly and securely. Using the virtualization features, we can migrate the environments very flexibly between our servers.
it_user431682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Malware Reseacher, Instructor, Consultant and Speaker at BlackStormSecurity
May 2, 2016
Undoubtedly, Solaris is a very stable, extremely fast, and secure operating system.
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it_user429384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 19, 2016
Too many features to count, the built in, low overhead integration is a huge plus, as is the ease of patching, the ability to use DTRACE to real time troubleshoot issues, the integrated security and most of all the performance.
SK
senior managed consultant at a tech services company
Jul 27, 2016
The Solaris Unix platform is very powerful, simple, and scalable.
it_user488784 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 2, 2016
I recommend Oracle solutions such as T5 Super-Cluster, T5-8 and the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system, as they are highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
it_user488778 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jul 28, 2016
Due to Solaris Cluster 4.1’s Live Migration future, we have achieved 99.9999% service uptime.
it_user490860 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operating Officer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jan 2, 2017
Implementing this product is a no brainer if you are using Oracle databases on SPARC.
it_user491505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President - (Unix) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 3, 2016
It provided unmatchable stability, high availability, scalability and the best tunable performance.
it_user490857 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Systems Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 2, 2016
Solaris 11 OS is as good as Linux, and in fact some of its features are way more advanced than Linux.
 

Oracle Solaris Cons review quotes

DA
Oracle ACE - Specialized in Systems Technologies at Telecom Argentina
Dec 17, 2020
There are some areas that could use some improvement.
Marcel Hofstetter - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle ACE Director "Solaris " / CEO / Enterprise Consultant at JomaSoft
Jan 19, 2026
Patching without downtime would be nice.
it_user431682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Malware Reseacher, Instructor, Consultant and Speaker at BlackStormSecurity
May 2, 2016
During my many years of use, I've suffered with small problems while implementing the advanced features of Solaris.
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it_user429384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 19, 2016
The online tools are great, but the phone folks could use a little more training.
SK
senior managed consultant at a tech services company
Jul 27, 2016
The Solaris Unix platform is very powerful, simple, and scalable. The on-premise environment is optimized, but the cloud environment is not.
it_user488784 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 2, 2016
I have noticed very frequent HBA and NIC card failure in T5-1B or T4-1B blade servers.
it_user488778 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jul 28, 2016
The level of customer service varies depending on the geo zone, but mostly Oracle support is very good and quick with providing the resolution for problems.
it_user490860 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operating Officer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jan 2, 2017
If you were starting from scratch, most companies would opt for x86 because it’s cheaper and easier to find skills and training for.
it_user491505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President - (Unix) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 3, 2016
Experience with Sun support was absolutely fantastic, but it deteriorated a little when Oracle support took over.
it_user490857 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Systems Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 2, 2016
Oracle’s poor strategy to lift the Solaris OS and tight licensing policy is killing Solaris.