This document is intended as a technical guide for developers and system administrators that want to understand the precise details of how Oracle Solaris and Oracle’s Sun x86 systems using Intel Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series can improve your enterprise application solution environment. It includes brief technical descriptions of specific features and capabilities that can be implemented in Oracle Solaris to optimize the specific functionality of Intel’s new processor family in the areas of scalable performance, advanced reliability, security, power efficiency, and cost-effective virtualization. An appendix provides additional technical information on optimizing Oracle Solaris for the Intel Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series.