Solaris Technologies

Here are additional resources for Solaris, OpenSolaris, and related technologies, such as Solaris Containers and Solaris Zones.

• Solaris Resources
• OpenSolaris Resources
• Solaris Containers, Solaris Zones, and Virtualization Resources

Solaris Resources

The Solaris 10 OS web site provides information about the Solaris 10 OS and links to useful resources, such as videos, FAQs, What's New info, and more. Here are additional Solaris resources:

• Solaris Information Center on BigAdmin, which provides links to documentation and technical articles about Solaris system administration

• BigAdmin Solaris Patching Center, which provides the latest information on patching and includes patching resources for beginners and advanced students of patching

• BigAdmin Solaris 10 Resource Collection

• Solaris related content on BigAdmin

• Solaris 10 Documentation Collection on docs.sun.com, including the Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection

• Discussions, such as the Solaris OS forums

• BigAdmin wiki's Operating System page, which provides links to resources such as scripts and the Solaris Tip of the Week blog

• Sun BluePrints wiki, which provides Sun BluePrints papers (registration required), such as Using the Solaris Operating System to Optimize the Xeon Processor 5500 Series CPUs

• Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/; also see the Solaris training page and specific learning paths, such as the System Administrator Learning Paths and the Solaris Value Packages

• Solaris on AMD page, which provides info about Solaris on AMD Opteron processor-based systems

• Solaris on Intel page, which provides white papers, videos, optimization info, and other resources for Solaris on Intel Xeon 5500 systems

OpenSolaris Resources

OpenSolaris is the open source version of the Solaris Operating System. To learn about or participate in the OpenSolaris community and its projects, go to opensolaris.org*, the official community of OpenSolaris developers, which provides technical content, such as mailing lists, code repositories, source code and packages, user groups, blogs, FAQs, and more.

Sun's distribution of OpenSolaris is available for download at the OpenSolaris.com web site*.

Here are additional OpenSolaris resources:

• BigAdmin OpenSolaris Resource Collection

• OpenSolaris related content on BigAdmin

• OpenSolaris documentation on opensolaris.com*

• OpenSolaris discussions*, especially the discussion group for sys admins*

• BigAdmin wiki's Operating System page, which provides links to Sun BluePrints, blogs, webcasts, and the OpenSolaris System Administration Guide

• Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/, such as the free OpenSolaris Technical Essentials Guide (WS-1000-OS), which guides you through various resources required to successfully install, use, administer, and distribute the OpenSolaris software

• OpenSolaris On Demand Learning Service, a cloud service that let's you try out new features of OpenSolaris 2008.11 without the hassles of downloading, installing or configuring--all for free

Solaris Containers, Solaris Zones, and Virtualization Resources

Zones provide a new isolation primitive for the Solaris OS, 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.

Here are some resources for Solaris Containers, Solaris Zones, and virtualization:

• BigAdmin Solaris Containers (Zones) page, which provides links to FAQs, videos, forums, white papers, Sun BluePrints papers, and more

• BigAdmin Virtualization Resources for System Administrators, which provides info on different types of virtualization, such as server virtualization and OS virtualization, and resources for Sun virtualization technologies

• BigAdmin Virtualization Resource Collection

• Solaris Containers related content on BigAdmin

• Solaris Zones related content on BigAdmin

• Virtualization related content on BigAdmin

• Sun's Virtualization Solutions web site, which provides virtualization basics, links to the Virtualization Learning Center, and more

• Documentation at http://docs.sun.com, especially the following:

  • System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones
  • System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System

• Solaris Zones forum

• BigAdmin virtualization wiki

• Sun BluePrints wiki, which provides Sun BluePrints papers (registration required) such as:

  • Virtualization BluePrints
  • Running MySQL Database in Solaris Containers
  • Zone Clusters - How to Deploy Virtual Clusters and Why

• Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/, such as:

  • Solaris 10 Containers (WS-2260-S10)
  • Introducing Zones and ZFS (WS-2025-S10)
  • Sun Virtualization: Solaris 10 Containers Administration (SA-355-S10)
  • Virtualization: Sun's Story (WS-3350)