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check solaris 10/09 version info – update 6/7/8/9

August 4th, 2011 lamp-linux

Using uname -a you can get the basic information currently available from the solaris system. For example, on my server:
root@beisoltest02 / # uname -a
SunOS beisoltest02 5.10 Generic_144489-12 i86pc i386 i86pc
However, sometimes you need check the “update version” of solaris. For example, in oracle documentation, your machine should has solaris 10 update 6 or higher if you want to install oracle 11 on your solaris host. So how can we check the ”update version” of solaris?

Step 1:

#cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 10/08 s10x_u6wos_07b X86 #it’s update 6!
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 27 October 2008
Step 2:(more detailed info)

Compare solaris version history below:

Notable features of Solaris currently include DTrace, Doors, Service Management Facility, Solaris Containers, Solaris Multiplexed I/O, Solaris Volume Manager, ZFS, andSolaris Trusted Extensions.

Updates to Solaris versions are periodically released, such as Solaris 10 10/09.

In ascending order, the following versions of Solaris have been released:

Colour	Meaning
Red	Release no longer supported
Green	Release still supported
Blue	Future release

Solaris version	SunOS version	Release date		End of support^[39]	Major new features
Solaris version	SunOS version	SPARC	x86	End of support^[39]	Major new features
1.x	4.1.x	1991–1994	-	September 2003	SunOS 4 rebranded as Solaris 1 for marketing purposes. See SunOS article for more information.
2.0	5.0	June 1992	-	January 1999	Preliminary release (primarily available to developers only), support for only the sun4c architecture. First appearance of NIS+.^[40]
2.1	5.1	December 1992	May 1993	April 1999	Support for sun4 and sun4m architectures added; first Solaris x86 release. First Solaris 2 release to support SMP.
2.2	5.2	May 1993	-	May 1999	SPARC-only release. First to support sun4d architecture. First to support multithreading libraries (UI threads API in libthread).^[41]
2.3	5.3	November 1993	-	June 2002	SPARC-only release. OpenWindows 3.3 switches from NeWS to Display PostScript and drops SunView support. Support added for autofs and CacheFSfilesystems.
2.4	5.4	November 1994		September 2003	First unified SPARC/x86 release. Includes OSF/Motif runtime support.
2.5	5.5	November 1995		December 2003	First to support UltraSPARC and include CDE, NFSv3 and NFS/TCP. Dropped sun4 (VMEbus) support. POSIX.1c-1995 pthreads added. Doors added but undocumented.^[42]
2.5.1	5.5.1	May 1996		September 2005	Only release to support PowerPC platform; Ultra Enterprise support added; user and group IDs (uid_t, gid_t) expanded to 32 bits,^[43] also included processor sets^[44] and early resource management technologies.
2.6	5.6	July 1997		July 2006	Includes Kerberos 5, PAM, TrueType fonts, WebNFS, large file support, enhanced procfs. SPARCserver 600MP series support dropped.^[45]
7	5.7	November 1998		August 2008	The first 64-bit UltraSPARC release. Added native support for file system meta-data logging (UFS logging). Dropped MCA support on x86 platform. Last update was Solaris 7 11/99.^[46]
8	5.8	February 2000		March 2012	Includes Multipath I/O, Solaris Volume Manager,^[47] IPMP, first support for IPv6 and IPsec (manual keying only), mdb modular debugger. Introduced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC); sun4c support removed. Last update is Solaris 8 2/04.^[48]
9	5.9	May 28, 2002	January 10, 2003	October 2014	iPlanet Directory Server, Resource Manager, extended file attributes, IKE IPsec keying, and Linux compatibility added; OpenWindows dropped, sun4d support removed. Most current update is Solaris 9 9/05.
10	5.10	January 31, 2005		-	Includes x86-64 (AMD64/Intel 64) support, DTrace (Dynamic Tracing), Solaris Containers, Service Management Facility (SMF) which replaces init.d scripts,NFSv4. Least privilege security model. Support for sun4m and UltraSPARC I processors removed. Support for EISA-based PCs removed. Adds Java Desktop System (based on GNOME) as default desktop.^[49] Solaris 10 1/06 (known internally as “U1″) added the GRUB bootloader for x86 systems, iSCSI Initiator support and fcinfo command-line tool. Solaris 10 6/06 (“U2″) added the ZFS filesystem. Solaris 10 11/06 (“U3″) added Solaris Trusted Extensions and Logical Domains. Solaris 10 8/07 (“U4″) added Samba Active Directory support,^[50] IP Instances (part of the OpenSolaris Network Virtualization and Resource Control project),iSCSI Target support and Solaris Containers for Linux Applications (based on branded zones), enhanced version of the Resource Capping Daemon (rcapd). Solaris 10 5/08 (“U5″) added CPU capping for Solaris Containers, performance improvements, SpeedStep support for Intel processors and PowerNow!support for AMD processors ^[51]^[52] Solaris 10 10/08 (“U6″) added boot from ZFS and can use ZFS as its root file system. Solaris 10 10/08 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a Solaris Container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another, Logical Domains support for dynamically reconfigurable disk and network I/O, and paravirtualization support when Solaris 10 is used as a guest OS in Xen-based environments such as Sun xVM Server.^[53] Solaris 10 5/09 (“U7″) added performance and power management support for Intel Nehalem processors, container cloning using ZFS cloned file systems, and performance enhancements for ZFS on solid-state drives. Solaris 10 10/09 (“U8″) added user and group level ZFS quotas, ZFS cache devices and nss_ldap shadowAccount Support, improvements to patching performance.^[54] Solaris 10 9/10 (“U9″) added physical to zone migration, ZFS triple parity RAID-Z and Oracle Solaris Auto Registration.^[55]
11 Express 2010.11	5.11	November 15, 2010		-	Adds new packaging system (IPS=Image Packaging System) and associated tools, Solaris 10 Containers, network virtualization and QoS, virtual consoles, ZFS encryption and deduplication, updated GNOME. Removes Xsun, CDE.^[56]