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The highly versatile Solaris 10 Operating System offers a great balance of new and unique features that support a wide variety of Suns new hardware. The Solaris 10 Features for Experienced System
Administrators course guides you through an in-depth exploration of the robust functionality found in Suns flagship operating system. You will be instructed in how to set up, configure, and administer some of the most distinctive Solaris features including: Solaris Zones, ZFS, NFS, DTrace, Predictive Self-Healing, Securituy and Operating System Installation.
Languages
English
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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are experienced system administrators and system architects with direct experience working with the Solaris 8, Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 Operating Systems.
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Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to administer the Solaris 10 Operating System.
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Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Configure and administer the new features of Solaris Zones
- Administer the ZFS file system
- Set up and administer the new features of Predictive Self-Healing
- Explore DTrace fundamentals
- Set up and administer the Network File System (NFS) Version 4 protocol
- Explore changes to Solaris 10 installation
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Topics
- Solaris Zones Configuration
- Solaris Zones Administration
- Introduction to the Solaris ZFS File System
- Predictive Self-Healing
- DTrace Fundamentals
- NFS Changes
- Security Changes
- Solaris 10 Operating System Installation Changes
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Course Content
Module 1 - Solaris Zones Configuration
- Identify the features of Solaris Zones partitioning technology
- Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
- Configure zones
- Verify zone configuration
- Export zone configuration
- Install zones
Module 2 - Solaris Zones Administration
- Verify zone configurations
- Install zones
- Boot zones
- Open a zone console
- Rename zones
- Move a zone
- Clone a zone
- Back up and restore non-global zones
- Migrate zones from one machine to another
- Describe system upgrades with non-global zones installed
- Administer packages in zones
- Remove zones
- Configure resource pools
Module 3 - Introduction to the Solaris ZFS File System
- Describe the Solaris ZFS file system
- Create new Solaris ZFS pools and file systems
- Modify Solaris ZFS file system properties
- Mount and unmount Solaris ZFS file systems
- Destroy Solaris ZFS pools and file systems
- Work with Solaris ZFS snapshots and Clones
- Use Solaris ZFS datasets with Solaris Zones
Module 4 - Predictive Self-Healing
- List the benefits of Predictive Self-Healing
- Determine the relationship of Fault Management Architecture (FMA) to Suns Predictive Self-Healing capability
- Determine the relationship of Service Management Facility (SMF) to Suns Predictive Self-Healing capability
- Explore features of the Fault Management Architecture
- Explore features of the Service Management Facility
Module 5 - DTrace Fundamentals
- Describe the features of Solaris
- Dynamic Tracing (DTrace)
- Write simple D Scripts
- List and enable probes and predicates
- Create action statements
- Explain the use of the pid, syscall, proc, sched, and io Providers
- Describe the DTrace Toolkit and one-liners
Module 6 - NFS Changes
- Describe NFS enhancements
- Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4 (NFS version 4)
- Describe NFS hardware and software requirements, dependencies, and limitations
Module 7 - Security Changes
- Describe the Least Privilege Model
- Examine administration tasks for Solaris OS Cryptographic Framework (SCF)
- Examine Secure by Default
- Explain the lock after retries feature in Secure By Default
- Examine new password encryption methods
- Explain password history, password constrains and password dictionary files
Module 8 - Solaris 10 Operating System Installation Changes
- Describe the Solaris SPARC Boot Architecture Redesign
- Describe upgrading the Solaris OS with installed non-global zones
- Configure multiple network interfaces during installation
- Describe how disk partition tables can be modified using an existing Volume Table of Contents (VTOC)
- Describe the Reduced Networking Software Group
- Explore changes to the Solaris JumpStart? software and configure, enable, and troubleshoot JumpStart
- Identify the changes to Flash archives
- Identify changes to the Solaris Live Upgrade boot environment and configure, enable, and troubleshoot the Live Upgrade boot capability
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