[brandz-discuss] Solaris 8 (brandz) container license information

[James C. McPherson]

Rajesh wrote:
> I am planning to migrate a server running Solaris 8 to a Solaris 8
> container. The current server is very old and EOL. On the new server
> I want to install Solaris 10 (global zone) and install 2 Solaris 8
> containers (brandz) under that global zone. I was told that there is
> no need to purchase solaris 8 or 9 (brandZ) license. Can someone
> please confirm this. I contacted one of the Sun resellers. He told me
> that Solaris 8 and 9 containers are included in the Solaris 10 distro
> at no charge.

That is correct. You even get Trusted Extensions for no
charge, too. The licensing model for Solaris 10 and all
the features it includes is quite, quite different from
the pre-Solaris 10 licensing model.

> Is Oracle certified to run on Solaris 8 container? Is someone running
> Oracle on a Solaris 8 container.

Probably, and probably - check Oracle's TechNet for more info.

> Can you backup/restore Oracle
> databases using Netbackup agent.

I sure hope so. I would be very surprised if you could not do this.

You can find out a lot more by reading the links at Sun's Solaris
10 webpage:

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris



James C. McPherson
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