Users and customers of Oracle Solaris who were planning to install Solaris 11 on older legacy hardware may want to rethink that decision and save up money for new hardware. Oracle recently put out an end of life notice for Oracle Solaris 11 on older processors. As a result, the Oracle Solaris 11 install will be altered so that it will not work on UltraSparc I, II, IIe, III, IIIi, III+, IV and IV+ processors. The company has also announced that Solaris 11 will no longer run on 32-bit x86 systems as well.

Does My Sparc Server Support Oracle Solaris 11?

To find out if a particular workstation or server is subject to this end of life notice, type in the following command at the Solaris command prompt: