On the Solaris Information Center
you will find pointers to documentation and technical articles
about Solaris system administration. This site will provide lots
of brand new information plus focused views of existing documentation.
And you may see information here that you just have not found
elsewhere. We hope you will visit often.
Solaris 9 Containers 1.0
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The Solaris 9 Containers product is
functionally similar to Solaris 8 Containers. With Solaris 9 Containers
software, customers can run their existing Solaris 9 applications on the
latest SPARC systems running the Solaris 10 OS.
The product is now available for download from
this site. For more information about getting Solaris Containers
refer to
this site.
Documentation is provided in
System Administration Guide: Solaris 9 Containers.
Patch Information Center
� This new site includes helpful information about patching
a Solaris system, including how to's and pointers to many other
useful information sources. Recently, a page describing
Patch Tools has been added.
FAQ: Recommended Patch Cluster for Solaris 10 11/06 OS
� This article answers questions regarding the importance
of installing updated patch clusters. In addition, it describes
the difference between the SunSolve recommended patch cluster
and the Sun Alert patch cluster.
Guidelines for Using Solaris Live Upgrade With Solaris Zones
� This community-submitted tech tip provides best practices for using Solaris
Live Upgrade with Solaris Zones. Live Upgrade support for systems with
zones installed was added in the Solaris 10 08/07 release.
Volume Management Within Solaris Zones
� This community-submitted tech tip provides information
about organizing and managing data volumes in Solaris Zones on
systems that run the Solaris 10 Operating System.
Solaris 8 Containers 1.0 (formerly "Solaris 8 Migration Assistant 1.0")
� The product described in
System Administration Guide: Solaris 8 Containers is used
to migrate a Solaris 8 host
to a solaris8 branded zone (also known as a Solaris 8 container)
on a Solaris 10 host. The solaris8 zone is an environment for Solaris 8
applications on SPARC machines running the Solaris 10 8/07
Operating System or later. The brand supports the execution of 32-bit
and 64-bit Solaris 8 applications.
You can download a free 90-day evaluation copy from
this site.
New Classes
SEM-SA-327-S10 - Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting with DTrace
WST-3250-S10 - Solaris 8 Trusted to Solaris 10 Trusted Extension Differences
For a complete list of the Solaris training classes available, see the
Course Catalog.
Solaris Trusted Extensions FAQ
� This FAQ answers questions about Solaris Trusted Extensions features,
multilevel systems (MLS), and moving from the Trusted Solaris 8 OS
to Trusted Extensions.
Install Video
� A 10-minute video which steps you through the installation of the Solaris
Express, Developer Edition release. Issues such as laying out file
systems are discussed in detail.
Several new changes to the
docs.sun.com
web site have been made during the last couple of months.
The changes include:
The Sun Hardware Documentation Site (SunDocs) has been moved to
docs.sun.com, providing a single site to find all
of the documents.
Persistent links have been added to docs.sun.com.
If you find a link to a procedure in the Solaris 10 documentation,
that link should persist for the rest of the Solaris 10 release cycle.
The search engine has been changed to use the search engine
that is used on the other sun.com web sites.
Several performace improvements were made to improve response time.
