1Z0-820 practice question 4 of 25

New features wore added to ZFS in Oracle Solaris11. Your justification to upgrade from Solaris10 to oracle Solaris11 is that it will be possible to take advantage of the enhancements that were made to ZFS. Identify the three ZFS functions and features that are included in Oracle Solaris 11, but not in Solaris 10.

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Answer options
A: Encrypted ZFS datasets Correct answer
B: Ability for ZFS to detect and remove redundant data from the tile system Correct answer
C: Shadow Data Migration Correct answer
D: Ability to split a mirrored ZFS storage pool
E: Ability to use ZFS on the boot drive and boot to a ZFS root file system.
F: elimination of the swap file system when using ZFS on the root disk
Correct Answer:
A. Encrypted ZFS datasets; B. Ability for ZFS to detect and remove redundant data from the tile system; C. Shadow Data Migration
Explanation

Oracle Solaris 11 introduced several major ZFS enhancements not present in the original baseline of Oracle Solaris 10. These include native ZFS dataset encryption for secure data at rest, ZFS deduplication to detect and remove redundant data blocks synchronously, and Shadow Migration for seamless background data migration from legacy file systems to local ZFS datasets. While some features (like deduplication) were later backported to late Solaris 10 updates, these three are officially classified as key Solaris 11 ZFS architectural advantages in upgrade scenarios.

Why Incorrect

D. The ability to split a mirrored ZFS storage pool (zpool split) was introduced earlier and is available in Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 (Update 9).
E. Booting from a ZFS root file system was introduced in Oracle Solaris 10 10/08 (Update 6), so it is not exclusive to Solaris 11.
F. Solaris 11 does not eliminate the swap file system; it utilizes ZFS volumes (zvol) to provide swap and dump devices.

References

1. Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: ZFS File Systems, Chapter 1: "Oracle Solaris ZFS File System (Introduction)", Section: "What's New in ZFS?".

2. Oracle Solaris 11 Feature FAQ, Section: "Data Management - ZFS Enhancements".

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