Solaris 10 Update Workshop
Duration: 4 Days
$2,500.00
This workshop is intended for Solaris Administrators who wish to quickly get up to speed with the new features of Solaris 10. It covers all the major new facilities, in a workshop environment, providing extensive hands-on practicals.
The notes also contain detailed information of significant changes provided by Solaris 8 and 9 releases, and these features will be explained in extended sessions if students require.
Zones
- Purpose of zones; how zones exist within a standard Solaris 10 system;
- creating a zone (including a Linux zone on Solaris x86);
- zone configuration, including mapping of disk and network resources;
- pre-configuration of zones with the sysidcfg file;
- controlling zones (booting, halting, etc);
- renaming, relocating and cloning zones;
- zone limitations;
- zone resource capping and resource pools (prctl, rcapd, etc.);
- assigning dedicated or shared network interfaces;
- patches, software installations and packages within zones;
- automatic update on attach;
- zones FAQ.
- Password history checking and nobody account changes;
- Account lockout;
- Least Privilege and the ppriv command;
- Least privilege and RBAC (Role-Based Access control) for assigning administrative privileges to users.
- Changes to UFS (multi-terabyte FS, EFS disk labels, devfs, logging, etc.);
- the fsstat command;
- the new ZFS (Zettabyte File System);
- Creating and managing storage pools with zpool;
- adding new devices to a storage pool;
- creating mirror, RAID Z and RAIDZ2 devices;
- offlining and replacing pool components;
- the creation and use of Hot Spares;
- ZFS command history;
- creating and managing file systems (datasets) with zfs;
- assigning properties such as quotas and NFS sharing to ZFS datasets;
- creating snapshots and clones of datasets;
- exporting and importing storage pools;
- recursive rename of ZFS datasets;
- using zfs send and receive (for backup and restore);
- the new ACL model (NFS v4) as used within ZFS datasets;
- emulated volumes; using ZFS within a zone;
- troubleshooting;
- using ZFS in Update 6 for root and swap, including booting issues.
- The Fault Mana;gement Architecture (FMA) - overview;
- the Service Management Facility (SMF);
- changes to /etc/inittab;
- the svc.startd process;
- the svc.configd process;
- using svcs to list and obtain information about services;
- using svcadm to control system services;
- using svccfg to import, export and modify service definitions (manifests);
- examination of the /var/svc and /lib/svc directories;
- how SMF attempts to restart failed services;
- using SMF facilities to trace services failures;
- using svccfg to modify service properties;
- adding services (creating scripts, XML files, etc);
- the use of legacy scripts under SMF;
- SMF repositories and recovery;
- SMF milestones compared to traditional run levels;
- how inetd services are affected;
- the netservices, inetconv and inetadm commands;
- enabling TCP Wrappers using inetadm;
- the fmd fault manager daemon, and how hardware faults are reported and handled.
- Quality of Service (IPQoS),
- Performance improvements (Fireengine project),
- MDT multi-data transmission,
- and others.
- The new Solaris OS Cryptographic Framework, a facility for developers to ease the use of encryption, signing, random number generation and so on;
- availability of hardware encryption accelerators;
- the Solaris IP Filter firewall facilities, covering
- the creation of firewall rules,
- enabling the firewall filter,
- changing rules,
- reporting and monitoring.
- An overview of the Trusted Solaris extensions now included with Solaris 10.
- The System Management Agent (SMA)
- (an SNMP agent that is based on an open source project, Net-SNMP at http://www.net-snmp.org.);
- DHCP under Solaris 10; routing changes, including the new routeadm and dladm commands.
- installation media;
- the ability to configure multiple network interfaces;
- modify hard disk partitions using a VTOC;
- specify filesys mirror and patch keywords in a Jumpstart profile;
- use ZFS for root and swap;
- minor changes to Jumpstart and flash archives;
- using the WAN boot facility for flash installs (i.e. building from a web server);
- the new web patching and update facility Sun Connection.
- IP Multipathing;
- Flash Archive creation and use in Solaris installations;
- Solaris Volume Manager, the integrated advanced disk management facility, previously known as Online: DiskSuite.
- showing how to modify it to add servers,
- make it Name Service aware, and
- add legacy applications.