OpenIndiana and illumos technologies provide the best platform available today, with cutting edge features, many of which cannot be found on other operating systems:
- ZFS – the last word in filesystems
- Zones – a Lightweight Virtualisation Technology
- SMF – the Service Management Facility for software lifecycle control
- IPS – a next generation network based package management system
- FMA – the Fault Management Architecture
- COMSTAR – an enterprise SCSI target system supporting iSCSI/iSER/FC/FCOE
- Crossbow – a next generation fully virtualised high performance network stack
- DTrace – an extensive, deep diagnosis and debugging framework
- Boot Environments – transactional operating system upgrades with rollback
- Role Based Access Control – RBAC allows granting least-privilege access to processes and users
- IP Multipathing – IPMP provides high availability networking and greater bandwidth
- Integrated L3/L4 kernel mode Load Balancer
- Integrated VRRP IP failover facility