Resources and guides on how to install or upgrade your system(s) to the Solaris 10 OS.

A Case Study at Sun - Upgrading 1500 Servers to the Solaris 9 Operating System

The Consolidation Tool for Sun Fire Servers V1.0, Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 Edition, is designed to simplify the task of consolidating multiple applications onto Sun Fire T1000 or T2000 servers.

This content is archived from Sun's Dot-Com Builder Web Site.
For Reference Only.

This content is archived from Sun's Dot-Com Builder Web Site. Security Guide, Java Guide, XML Guide, Solaris Guide, Web Infrastructure Guide.
For Reference Only.

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating Environment.

PDF document that provides a step-by-step guide to using Dynamic Reconfiguration for CPU/Memory boards on the Enterprise 3000-6500 class servers.

The JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit provides a framework to simplify and extend the JumpStart functionality provided within the Solaris Operating System.

This paper explores the capabilities of the PatchPro Analysis Engine (PatchPro) and describes how to leverage its capabilities to more efficiently allow its use in environments where all hosts do not have direct access to the Sun infrastructure.

The Predictive Self-Healing model is scalable, extensible, and portable, and will be used across Sun's product line to deliver a common experience for service and administration, reducing cost of ownership for Sun systems. You can learn more about self-healing technology here.

This guide is designed to help System Administrators evaluate the Solaris 9 Operating Environment (OE).
It includes information about what is new in the Solaris 9 platform, walks through the installation, and a test drive of the environment.

The Solaris Operating System End-of-Software Support Statements list features that have been removed from the selected OS release, as well features that might be removed in a future release.

This document contains the most relevant 20% of technical information you will need to know when working with Solaris and Sun platforms. It should answer 80% of your Solaris questions.
Last Updated 2004.

Read about advances in networking performance for the Solaris OS, including FireEngine, a new networking architecture.

Zones provide a new isolation primitive for Solaris, which is secure, flexible, scalable and lightweight: virtualized OS services which look like different Solaris instances. Together with the existing Solaris Resource management framework, Solaris Zones forms the basis of Solaris Containers.

Configuration diagrams provide the ability to quickly document a Sun system configuration.

This document is a superset of the information contained in Chapter 19 "Transitioning From NIS to LDAP" in the System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) book.