Sun BluePrints Series
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Sun BluePrints SeriesThe mission of the Sun BluePrints Program is to empower Sun's customers with the technical knowledge required to implement reliable, extensible, and secure information systems within the datacenter using Sun products. This program provides a framework to identify, develop, and distribute best practices information that applies across the Sun product lines. Experts in technical subjects in various areas contribute to the program and focus on the scope and usefulness of the information. ORDER NOW and save 30% on all Sun BluePrints titles! Books listed in reversed chronological order. Titles available now
Building N1 Grid Solutions
Preparing, Architecting, and Implementing Service-Centric Data Centers
336 pages
The N1 Grid is Sun's vision, strategy and architecture, as well as a set of products, that redefine the nature of data center computing. The N1 Grid architecture uses the network, physically and logically, as its fundamental organizing principle. It is about understanding the challenges inherent in delivering services and managing today's complex IT infrastructures, recognizing the various technology and business trends that have led us here. By reconciling these challenges and trends, the N1 Grid architecture leads us to the conclusion that a fundamental shift is required in our understanding, architecting, and management of the data center so that the economics of delivering services can be radically changed. The book starts with an overview of how the N1 Grid architecture came about and takes the reader through the process of preparing, architecting, and implementing data center infrastructure that realizes the N1 Grid architecture vision and enables services and value to be delivered more efficiently and more flexibility today, while preparing for future technologies.
Networking Concepts and Technology: A Designer's Resource
400 pages
This book is a resource for network architects who must create solutions for emerging network environments in enterprise data centers. You'll find information on how to leverage Sun Open Network Environment technologies to create Services on Demand solutions as well as technical details about the networking internals. The information presented here is based on actual network engineering experience that includes network product development and real world customer experiences. The focus of this book is limited to the design of network architectures that support Web services-based multi-tier architectures. However, it covers everything from the edge data center switch to the server network protocol stacks.
Making the Net Work: Deploying a Secure Portal on Sun Systems
272 pages
This book describes how to get the most out of the Sun Portal Server Secure Remote Access 6.x products. The best practice suggestions contained in this book evolved from real-world customer escalation, proof-of-concept exercises, and presales support. Each chapter provides high-level overviews that quickly drill down into technical details that are critical for solving problems or heading them off entirely. This book represents an aggregation of information to get the most out of your secure portal investment, by simplifying it's deployment, minimizing it's management, and optimizing it's usage.
Migrating to the Solaris Operating System: The Discipline of UNIX-to-UNIX Migrations
272 pages
This book presents an established methodology for transitioning the people, processes, and technologies in IT environments to the Solaris Operating System. It steps you through the various phases of the migration process, using detailed case studies to illustrate the benefits, costs, and requirements associated with a migration project. While this book focuses on UNIX server migrations, the methodology and best practices presented apply for most migrations to the Solaris environment. They can be used for projects ranging from the smallest data conversion to the largest legacy migration.
LDAP in the Solaris Operating Environment: Deploying Secure Directory Services
720 pages
LDAP in the Solaris Operating Environment is a follow-on to the Sun BluePrints book "Solaris and LDAP Naming Services", and describes the significant improvements to the Solaris LDAP client and directory server. Deploying the Solaris Secured LDAP Client is covered in detail. This Sun BluePrints book introduces NIS/NIS+ migration tools and techniques to aid in the transition to an LDAP-based naming service. Troubleshooting tips, examples of extending Solaris authentication methods, and examples of extending Solaris authentication methods using the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework arev provided.
Sun ONE Messaging Server Practices and Techniques for Enterprise Customers
288 pages
As messaging or email increases in volume and size, the need for a scalable enterprise messaging system becomes more apparent to manging organizations. The Sun ONE Messaging Server product fills these requirements and more. However, as with any system the planning, installation, and routine maintenance tasks have a significant impact on throughput and availability.
Secure Shell in the Enterprise
198 pages
Secure Shell in the Enterprise details best practices for facilitating and managing Secure Shell technology in the Solaris Operating Environment. This book is intended for system administrators who will be deploying and integrating Secure Shell software into their computing environments.Detailed examples of configuring, deploying, and integrating OpenSSH and the Solaris Secure Shell software are provided, in combination with explanations of tradeoffs and problems encountered. In addition, a comprehensive list of Secure Shell references and resources is included.
Securing Systems with the Solaris Security Toolkit
400 pages
Securing Systems with the Solaris Security Toolkit provides a comprehensive source for features, capabilities,how-to instructions, security recommendations, and best practices for securing systems using the Solaris Security Toolkit software. Securing computer systems against unauthorized access is one of the most pressing issues facing today's data center administrators. As with any security decision, a balance must be attained between system manageability and security. Every day, hackers compromise systems using well-known attack methods; however, many attacks have preventative solutions available. Using the software, tools, recommendations, and best practices presented in this book to harden systems and minimize entry points to intruders can increase security of your systems.
Designing ISP Architectures
360 pages This book is a model for designing architectures for ISPs of any size. Expressly for IT architects and consultants who design ISP architectures, this book details the design process from start to finish. Throughout this book, whether it's obtaining and evaluating requirements or creating logical and physical designs, we provide helpful tips, insights, and expertise. We compare design approaches, offer suggestions for evaluating trade-offs, and alert you to common pitfalls.
Consolidation in the Data Center
227 pages
This new book provides a methodology for justifying, scoping, and implementing server and storage consolidation. This book quantifies TCO savings and other benefits and covers creating an architecture and implementing a consolidation solution. Consolidation allows IT managers to cut high management costs associated with the proliferation of small to midsize distributed servers. The linked goals of reducing IT complexity, lowering TCO and providing a better way to access and manage an organization's information and resources are now more attainable than ever.
SunFire Server Design and Configuration Guide
192 pages
This book demystifies server design and configuration, specifically as it relates to Sun Fire hardware. All too often, customers run into problems because they have purchased a server design that cannot possibly work for their needs. This can be solved by some forethought and planning; however, servers differ in design. This book offers a solid structure to help the customer accurately state their needs, decide on what to purchase, and then finally configure it into a properly running system.
Enterprise Security: Solaris Operating Environment, Security Journal, Solaris OEv2.51, 2.6, 7, and 8
417 pages This book is a compilation of best practices and recommendations for securing Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE). Tailored for busy system administrators and individuals who architect and implement systems (for example, architects, consultants and engineers), this book offers expertise for handling non-secure systems. It provides a comprehensive source for securing the operating environment, architecture, hardware, and software.
Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology
197 pages This Sun BluePrint is a practical guide to designing a data center from inception through construction. The fundamental design principles take a simple, flexible, and modular approach based on accurate, real-world requirements and capacities. This approach contradicts the conventional (but totally inadequate) method of using square footage to determine basic capacities like power and cooling requirements.
Boot Disk Management: A Guide for the Solaris Operating System
204 pages
This new book examines the life cycle of the Solaris Operating Environment (OE) and its boot disk. Recomendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the Solaris OE boot disk are presented in detail. Additionally, this book provides recommendations for installing the Solaris OE, as well as recommendations for managing Solaris OE upgrades with Live Upgrade.
Designing Enterprise Solutions with Sun Cluster 3.0
270 pages This new book is an introduction to architecting highly available systems with Sun servers, storage, and the Sun Cluster 3.0 software. Three recurring themes are used throughout the book: failures, synchronization, and arbitration. These themes occur throughout all levels of systems design. The first chapter deals with understanding these relationships and recognizing failure modes associated with synchronization and arbitration. The second and third chapters review the building blocks and describe the Sun Cluster 3.0 software environment in detail.
JumpStart Technology:
259 pages This book serves as a guide to datacenter management and administration using JumpStart technology--the solution for automating system configuration developed by Sun Microsystems. It features applied methodologies, derived from practical experience, that result in the best solution for a well defined problem.
Techniques For Optimizing Applications:
662 pages
This book is a practical guide to performance optimization of computationally intensive programs on Sun UltraSPARC platforms. It is primarily intended for developers of technical or high performance computing (HPC) applications for the Solaris operating environment. This audience includes both independent software vendor (ISV) developers and noncommercial developers. It can also be used by end-users of HPC applications to help them better understand how applications utilize system resources.
Capacity Planning for Internet Services
221 pages
Capacity planning is a well known discipline, particularly for sites that have a mainframe oriented background. When every high growth rates occur, as in large internet sites, time constraints prevent normal techniques from being applied. This BluePrint charts a course through the available techniques and tools, examines timescales and return on investments for different methodologies and provides a framework for decomposing big problems into solvable subproblems.
Sun Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster 2.2
389 pages
Sun Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster 2.2 describes elements that affect availability and introduces best practices that promote good work practices. The information contained in this publication helps increase availability at the datacenter level or at the single server level.
Solaris and LDAP Naming Services: Deploying LDAP in the Enterprise
380 pages Solaris and LDAP Naming Services is a practical guide to implementing Solaris 8 native LDAP on clients and servers. Basic LDAP concepts are covered, as well as naming and authentication architectural details. This BluePrint outlines strategies for consolidating legacy directory services using LDAP technology.
Backup and Restore Practices For Sun Enterprise Servers
208 pages
Backup and Restore Practices for Sun Enterprise Servers is a practical guide for IT organizations that are tasked with implementing or revamping a backup/restore architecture. The book includes case studies, a methodology, and example runbooks. It addresses issues such as scalability and performance of the backup/restore architecture, criteria for selecting tools and technologies, and tradeoffs that must be considered. It provides technical guidelines for planning the architecture to meet service levels, as well as general advice and guidance.
Solaris PC Netlink: Performance Sizing and Deployment
478 pages
Solaris PC Netlink: Performance, Sizing and Deployment provides system planners and administrators information that enables them to install, tune, and use their PC NetLink server to its maximum functionality and performance. This BluePrint includes information to help system planners scale their PC NetLink server to their own PC client environment.
Resource Management
368 pages This Sun BluePrint is a practical guide that shows how to manage system resources to meet system and performance service levels. The theory of resource management is introduced and a detailed analysis of what is required to implement resource management in the Solaris operating environment is explored. The BluePrint includes examples of typical system workloads and how the Solaris resource management facilities and products can be used with these workloads. Workloads include Databases, File Services, Web Servers, Batch Tasks, and Internet Service Provider configurations such as ftp.
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