[pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support

[Jeff Wieland]

Fred wrote:
>
>     We did the same thing.  I do miss how fast Solaris 8 would reboot
>     on our old
>     V100's - down and up in 90 seconds.  With Solaris 10 it takes
>     about 4 minutes.
>
>
> Worry not, Solaris 11's fast reboot can boot a host as quickly as a zone.
> Default behaviour for a reboot is to skip the POST.
>
> Fred
>

V100's won't run Solaris 11, and they don't run POST on a reboot anway.
POST on our V100's takes about 45 seconds...a bit longer if they have more
memory.

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