Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/SA-225-S10.xml

Solaris 10 Features for Experienced Solaris System Administrators (SA-225-S10)

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, Security and Operating System Installation.

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Languages

English

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.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to administer the Solaris 10 OS.

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

Related Courses

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After:

Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting With DTrace (SA-327-S10)

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