The Oracle Solaris Remote Lab allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to test and qualify their applications in a self service Solaris cloud.
ISVs who are Oracle Partner Network Gold members with a specialization in the Solaris knowledge zone can apply for free access in OPN.
The lab offers the following features to it's users:
- Lifetime of project: 45 days (extensions granted on demand)
- Up to 5 virtual machines in a private network
- Virtual Machine technology: Solaris zones
- Resources per VM
- processor support: SPARC or x86
- OS version: OracleSolaris 11.0
- 4GB physical memory
- 4GB swap space
- 10GB local filesystem storage
- 10GB network filesystem (NFS) mounted on all virtual machines
- Networking configuration
- The only external network routes are to Partner's other Virtual Machines
- No network routing to the Internet
- The SMB (CIFS) sharing protocol is not available between Virtual Machines
- Device Access
- Applications that assume the existence of /devices will not run in a Virtual Machine
- Applications that use eeprom to modify SPARC eeprom setting will not run in a Virtual Machine
- The following utilities do not work properly in Virtual Machines:
- add_drv, disks, prtconf, prtdiag, rem_dev
- Access technology: Secure Global Desktop, file up and download
- root access within VM
- Available VM templates (both processor architectures)
- Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3) for Solaris with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
- Weblogic 12c
- SAMP: Apache http server, PHP, MySQL, phpadmin
- on all templates and images: Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 for application development
More resources:
- Online application for Oracle Solaris remote Lab
- Developer Webinar about the Oracle Solaris Remote Lab
- Everything an Oracle Solaris Developer needs...