Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/SA-345-S10.xml

Sun Virtualization: Solaris 10 Logical Domains Administration (SA-345-S10)

Sun Microsystems Logical Domains (LDoms) technology is part of a suite of methodologies for consolidation and resource management that includes Sun Fire Dynamic System Domains and Solaris OS Containers. This technology allows you to allocate a systems various resources, such as memory, CPUs, and devices, into logical groupings and create multiple, discrete systems. Each of these systems will have its own operating system, resources, and identity. The emphasis of this course is on providing practical LDom planning, configuration, and administration experience, while also covering the underlying technologies and best practices. This course features the Solaris 10 OS, and LDom management software. The students perform the course lab exercises using LDoms supported servers.

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English

Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators, IT architects, and other individuals tasked with the following responsibilities:

Planning server consolidation
Configuring logical domains
Administering virtualized OS environments

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

Administer the Solaris 10 OS
Administer Ethernet networks
Perform basic Sun Fire server initial setup tasks

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

Identify IT datacenter virtualization tends
Describe the benefits of logical domains
Explore logical domain architecture
Prepare a system to support logical domains
Create logical domains
Reconfigure logical domains
Create Split PCI configurations

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Course Content

Module 1 - Virtualization Trends in the Datacenter

Describe the virtualization need
Describe the benefits of an dynamic datacenter
Describe Sun Microsystems virtualization technologies

Module 2 - Solaris Logical Domains Fundamentals

Describe LDoms architecture
Identify appropriate hardware platform
Describe core/thread affinity model on CMT systems
Describe Hypervisor software concepts
Describe the LDoms Manager
Define LDoms domain types:
Control domain
I/O domain
Service domain
Guest domain
Define LDom virtualization
Determine what to partition
Identify physical resources
Define virtual devices and services
Identify Ldom configuration guidelines and requirements
Identify resource requirements for control domains
Identify resource requirements for I/O and service domains
Determine how many domains are needed
Define cryptographic devices and virtual CPUs
Identify logical domains configuration requirements and guidelines

Module 3 - Preparing a System for Logical Domains

Install the required firmware to support LDoms
Identify which hardware to use
Configure a system to support LDoms
Perform Solaris configuration:
Obtain the correct build of the Solaris OS
Check the Solaris OS version
Patch Solaris to include the latest Ldoms support
Perform Firmware configuration:
Check firmware versions
Update firmware version
Run the install-ldm script:
Logical domains manager and security packages
User access to run ldm commands
Administer security:
Security toolkit
RBAC
Audit controls
Perform a quick test of the logical domains manager

Module 4 - Creating a Control and Service Logical Domain

Describe the Logical Domains Manager (LDoms) ldm command
Identify control and service domain resources
Create default virtual services
Setup the control domain

Module 5 - Creating Guest Logical Domains

Create a guest logical domain
JumpStart a guest logical domain
Verify a guest logical domain configuration

Module 6 - Advanced Logical Domain Administration

Add and remove virtual CPUs to logical domains
Add memory to logical domains
Configure a group console
Create a split PCI configuration
Configure file-based virtual disks
Configure ZFS-based virtual disks
Configure virtual switch and service domain for NAT and routing
Configure IPMP in the logical domain environment
Configure virtual I/O failover
Backup, remove, and restore logical domains