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The Solaris 10 Containers course provides students with instruction about
identifying features found in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS).
Topics include zone features and concepts, configuring zones, resource pools and
using the zonecfg command.
Format
This course is presented using Sun's web-based Live Virtual Class (LVC). The LVC is a dynamic and fully interactive online learning environment that features live teaching collaboration, and instructor-assisted activities.
Lab Information
The hands-on online labs offered in this course involve accessing equipment through a network terminal session. Students will not have physical access to this equipment. Students will access the equipment through Sun's Remote Lab Data Center (RLDC).
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Additional Requirements
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Hardware:
- Memory: Minimum of 128 Mbytes
- DSL or other high-speed connection
- Speakers or headphones and microphone
Software:
- Operating system: Solaris Operating System 10, MS Windows XP/2000/98/NT 4.0
- Browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla 1.4.1 and higher, and
Netscape 7 and higher. Must be Java/Javascript enabled.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
All other required software will be made available for download after you
enroll for this course.
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Course Features and Services
- Live audio by expert instructor
- Lab reviews, simulations, demonstrations, or lab exercises
- Printable Study Guide
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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are experienced Solaris system
administrators.
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Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to administer the Solaris 9 Operating System.
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Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Identify the different zones features
- Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
- Configure zones
- Associate zones with resource pools
- Install zones
- Boot zones
- Manage packages in systems with zones installed
- Back up and restore zones
- Back up and restore zone configurations
- Understand upgrade capabilities with zones installed
- Configure resource pools
- Configure CPU fair resource scheduling
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Course Content
Module 1 - Introduction to Solaris Zones
- Describe the features of zones
- Describe the concepts of zones
- Describe zone daemons
- Describe zone file systems
- Describe zone networking
- Describe zone states
Module 2 - Configuring zones
- Identify zone components
- Configure zone resources
- Use the zonecfg command to configure zones
- Identify the zonecfg command scope
- Use zonecfg subcommands
- Use zonecfg resource parameters
- Viewing the zone configuration
- Use the zoneadm command
- Verify a configured zone
- Install a configured zone
- Boot a zone
- Log in to the zone console
- Halt a zone
- Reboot a zone
- Log in to and work with zones
- Install packages in zones
- Delete a zone
Module 3 - Zone Backup, Recovery, and Upgrades
- Create backups on systems with zones installed
- Relate non-global zone configurations to backup and recovery requirements
- Make zone backups from the global zone
- Make backups from within a non-global zone
- Understand limitations on backing up loopback file system directories
- Save and restore non-global zone configuration information
- Recover individual non-global zones
- Understand upgrade capabilities for systems with non-global zones installed
- Describe limiting profile keywords when upgrading with non-global zones installed
Module 4 - Using Features of Dynamic Resource Pools
- Describe configuring zone resources
- Create dynamic resource pools
- Configure resource pools using the poolcfg command
- Describe physical memory control using the resource capping daemon
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