Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced System Administration Ed 3 (Student Guide Volume 1)
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- Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced System Administration - Student Guide - Volume I
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Lesson 1: Introduction
- Lesson 2: Managing the Image Packaging System (IPS) and Packages
- Objectives
- Workflow Orientation
- Lesson Agenda
- Importance of Working with a Plan
- Planning for IPS and Package Management
- Identifying IPS Server System Requirements
- Planning for Boot Environment Management
- Implementing the IPS and Package Management Plan
- Quiz
- Lesson Agenda
- Configuring a Local IPS Package Repository
- Creating a ZFS File System to Hold the Repository
- Obtaining Software Packages from the Oracle Solaris Download Site
- Making the Repository File Contents Available
- Configuring the Repository Server Service
- Starting the Repository Service
- Setting the Local IPS Publisher
- Testing IPS on the Local Server
- Practice 2-1 Overview: Configuring a Local IPS Package Repository
- Lesson Agenda
- Configuring Network Client Access to the Local IPS Server
- Determining the Client Host and Domain Names
- Checking Network Connectivity
- Setting the Local IPS Publisher
- Testing Client Access to the Local IPS Server
- Practice 2-2 Overview: Configuring Network Client Access to the Local IPS Server
- Lesson Agenda
- Introducing Signed Packages
- Installing Signed Packages
- Identifying Image Properties for Signed Packages
- Configuring Image Properties for Signed Packages
- Identifying Publisher Properties for Signed Packages
- Configuring Publisher Properties for Signed Packages
- Quiz
- Introducing Variants and Facets
- Displaying and Changing Variants and Facets
- Managing Package History
- Lesson Agenda
- Managing Package Publishers
- Displaying Publisher Information
- Specifying Publisher Rankings
- Specifying Publisher Stickiness
- Setting the Publisher Search Order
- Disabling and Enabling a Publisher
- Changing a Publisher Origin URI
- Quiz
- Lesson Agenda
- Managing Multiple Boot Environments
- Listing the Boot Environments on the System
- Mounting an Inactive Boot Environment
- Installing a Package on an Inactive
- Uninstalling a Package on an Inactive
- Unmounting an Inactive Boot Environment
- Creating a Backup of a Boot Environment
- Creating a Boot Environment from an Existing Backup
- Practice 2-3 Overview: Managing Multiple Boot Environments
- Summary
- Lesson 3: Installing Oracle Solaris 11 on Multiple Hosts
- Objectives
- Workflow Orientation
- Lesson Agenda
- Reviewing Your Company’s Plan for an Oracle Solaris 11 Implementation
- Planning for an Oracle Solaris 11 AI Installation
- Automated Installation: Overview
- Automated Installation Process
- How the AI Works
- Quiz
- Lesson Agenda
- Installing Oracle Solaris 11 by Using the AI
- Reviewing AI Installation Server Requirements
- Verifying AI Install Server Software Requirements
- Verifying the Static IP Address
- Verifying That DNS Is Operational
- Verifying That IPS Is Available Locally
- Verifying That the DHCP Server Is Enabled
- Practice 3-1 Overview: Verifying System AI Requirements (Optional)
- Configuring the AI Install Server
- Enabling the DNS Multicast Service
- Installing the AI Installation Tools
- Setting Up the AI Boot Image
- Configuring an AI Install Service
- Verifying the netmasks File Configuration
- Creating an AI Install Service with an ISC DHCP Server Setup
- Creating an AI Install Service Without a DHCP Setup
- Note About the AI SMF Service
- Adding a Client to the AI Install Service
- AI Manifest
- Identifying the Types of AI Manifests
- Reviewing the Default AI Manifest (default.xml)
- System Configuration Profiles (SC Profiles)
- Adding an SC Profile to an Install Service
- Creating a Custom AI Manifest
- Selecting the AI Manifest
- Criteria File: Examples
- Adding Installation Criteria to an AI Manifest
- Practice 3-2 Overview: Configuring the AI Server
- Configuring the Client System
- Identifying Client System Requirements
- Using Secure Shell to Remotely Monitor an Installation
- Implementing the Configuration
- Reviewing Client Installation Messages
- Practice 3-3: Deploying the OS on the Network Client
- Lesson Agenda
- Introducing the Distribution Constructor
- Identifying System Requirements for Using the Distribution Constructor
- Using Distribution Constructor Manifest Files
- Building an Image
- Quiz
- Summary
- Lesson 4: Managing Business Application Data
- Objectives
- Workflow Orientation
- Lesson Agenda
- Planning for Data Storage Configuration and Backup
- Determining Storage Pool Requirements
- Mirrored Storage Pool Data Redundancy Features
- Mirrored Storage Pool Configuration
- Self-Healing Data
- Dynamic Striping
- Dynamic Striping in a Mirrored Pool
- Determining File System Requirements
- Identifying Your Data Backup and Restore Strategy
- Determining Ways to Save Data Storage Space
- Implementing the Data Storage Configuration and Backup Plan
- Quiz
- Lesson Agenda
- Managing Data Redundancy with Mirrored Storage Pools
- Creating a Mirrored Storage Pool
- Adding Log Devices to a Storage Pool
- Adding Cache Devices to a Storage Pool
- Managing Devices in ZFS Storage Pools
- Adding Devices to a Storage Pool
- Attaching Devices to a Storage Pool
- Taking Devices Offline in a Storage Pool
- Detaching Devices from a Storage Pool
- Bringing Devices Online in a Storage Pool
- Replacing Devices in a Storage Pool
- Designating Hot Spares in a Storage Pool
- Removing Hot Spares in a Storage Pool
- Practice 4-1 Overview: Managing Data Redundancy with a ZFS Mirrored Pool
- Lesson Agenda
- Backing Up and Recovering Data with ZFS Snapshots
- Creating and Destroying a ZFS Snapshot
- Holding a ZFS Snapshot
- Renaming a ZFS Snapshot
- Displaying a ZFS Snapshot
- Snapshot Space Accounting
- Rolling Back a ZFS Snapshot
- Identifying ZFS Snapshot Differences
- Creating and Destroying a ZFS Clone
- Replacing a ZFS File System with a ZFS Clone
- Sending ZFS Snapshot Data
- Receiving ZFS Snapshot Data
- Remote Replication of ZFS Snapshot Data
- Practices 4-2 and 4-3 Overview: Using ZFS Snapshots for Backup and Recovery and Using a ZFS Clone
- Lesson Agenda
- Managing Data Storage Space with ZFS File System Properties
- Setting ZFS Properties
- Inheriting ZFS Properties
- Querying ZFS Properties
- Mounting and Sharing ZFS File Systems
- Overriding Default ZFS Mount Points
- Introducing the mountpoint Property
- Automatic Mount Point Behavior
- Legacy Mount Point Behavior
- Managing Legacy Mount Points
- share.nfs Property: Introduction
- Setting the share.nfs Property
- Unsharing ZFS File Systems
- Sharing ZFS File Systems
- Setting ZFS Quotas and Reservations
- Introducing the quota
- Setting Quotas for ZFS File Systems
- Setting a User Quota on a ZFS File System
- Setting a Group Quota on ZFS File System
- Displaying User and Group Space Usage
- Identifying User and Group Space Usage
- Removing User and Group Quotas
- Identifying Reservation Restrictions
- Setting Space Reservation on a Data Set and Snapshot
- Setting Space Reservation on a Data Set
- Displaying Reservation Values
- Practice 4-4 Overview: Configuring ZFS Properties
- Lesson Agenda
- Troubleshooting ZFS Failures
- Identifying Problems in ZFS
- Troubleshooting in ZFS: Overview
- Basic Recovery Process
- Configuring syslog for FMD Messages
- Determining Problems in a ZFS Storage Pool
- Interpreting zpool status Output
- Determining Problems in a ZFS Storage Pool
- Repairing a Damaged ZFS Configuration
- Repairing a Missing Device
- Reattaching a Device
- Repairing a Missing Device
- Repairing a Damaged Device
- Determining the Cause of Device Failure
- Clearing Transient Errors
- Replacing a Device in a ZFS Storage Pool
- Viewing Resilvering Status
- Scrubbing
- Repairing Damaged Data
- Data Corruption: Overview
- Identifying the Type of Data Corruption
- Repairing a Corrupted File or Directory
- Repairing ZFS Storage Pool–Wide Damage
- Practice 4-5 Overview: Troubleshooting ZFS Failures
- Summary
- Lesson 5: Configuring Network and Traffic Failover
- Objectives
- Workflow Orientation
- Lesson Agenda
- Planning for Network and Traffic Failover
- Configuring a Host For TCP/IP
- Configuring Network Services
- Reactive Network Configuration
- Network File System Servers and Clients
- Network Performance Concepts
- Link Aggregation
- Load Balancing and Aggregation Policies
- Aggregation Modes and Switches
- IPMP: Introduction
- IPMP Components
- Comparing Link Aggregation and IPMP
- Implementing the Network and Traffic Failover Plan
- Quiz
- Lesson Agenda
- Configuring Systems on a Local Network
- Configuring a Physical Network Interface Manually
- Configuring a Physical Network Interface Manually: Example
- Deleting a Physical Network Interface Manually
- Deleting a Physical Network Interface Manually: Example
- Displaying TCP/IP Network Information
- Displaying the Status of Network Interfaces
- Displaying the Routing Table
- Capturing Packets from the Network
- Lesson Agenda
- Configuring a Reactive Network
- Creating a Network Configuration Profile
- Creating a Location Profile
- Listing a Location Profile
- Modifying Profiles
- Listing Reactive Network Profiles
- Enabling and Disabling Reactive Network Profiles
- Displaying Profile States
- Displaying Profiles and Their Auxiliary States
- Creating a Backup of a Profile
- Removing Reactive Network Profiles
- Practice 5-1 Overview: Managing a Reactive Network
- Lesson Agenda
- Configuring Network File System (NFS)
- Configuring the NFS Server
- Checking the NFS Services Status
- Configuring the NFS Client
- Selecting a Different Version of NFS on a Server
- Enabling the Automounter
- Displaying NFS Server and Client Statistics
- Practice 5-2 Overview: Configuring the Network File System
- Lesson Agenda
- Preparing for Link Aggregation
- Creating Link Aggregation
- Modifying Link Aggregation
- Deleting Link Aggregation
- Practice 5-3 Overview: Configuring a Link Aggregation
- Lesson Agenda
- Configuring an IPMP Group
- Creating an IPMP Group
- Adding IP Addresses to an IPMP Group
- Moving an Interface from One IPMP Group to Another Group
- Deleting or Disabling an IPMP Group
- Lesson Agenda
- Implementing Link Failover by Using IPMP
- Configuring an Active-Active IPMP Group
- Assigning Test Addresses
- Configuring an Active-Standby IPMP Group
- Lesson Agenda
- Monitoring an IPMP Group
- Displaying IPMP Group Information
- Obtaining IPMP Address Information
- Verifying IPMP Interface Information
- Obtaining Probe Target Information
- Checking Probe Information
- Practice 5-4 Overview: Configuring IPMP
- Summary
- Lesson 6: Configuring Zones and the Virtual Network
- Objectives
- Workflow Orientation
- Lesson Agenda
- Planning for a Virtual Network and Zones
- Network Virtualization and Virtual Networks
- Virtual Network Components
- Introducing Zone Configuration by Using VNICs
- Allocating System Resources to a Zone
- Managing System Resource Allocation to a Zone
- Resource Pool Allocation
- How Resource Pools Work
- Memory Resource Capping
- Specifying Resource Capping Within a Zone
- Implementing Controls on Network Resources
- Managing Virtual Network Resources by Using Flows
- Creating Flows and Selecting Flow Properties
- Implementing the Virtual Network and Zones Plan
- Quiz
- Lesson Agenda
- Creating a Virtual Network
- Creating a Virtual Network Switch
- Creating the Virtual Network Interfaces
- Displaying the Virtual Network Configuration
- The Virtual Network Configuration So Far
- Quiz
- Practice 6-1 Overview: Creating an Oracle Solaris 11 Virtual Network
- Lesson Agenda
- Configuring Zones to Use VNICs
- Zone Configuration Process: Overview
- Planning the Zone Strategy
- Creating a ZFS File System for Zones in rpool
- Configuring the Zone
- Verifying
- Displaying a Zone Configuration
- Verifying That a Zone Is in configured State
- Gathering Information for the System Configuration Profile
- Creating the System Configuration Profile
- Installing the Zone
- Booting the Zone
- Checking the Virtual Network Configuration in a Zone
- Verifying That a Zone’s Virtual Network Interface Connection Is Operational
- Virtual Network Configuration
- Removing the Virtual Network Without Removing the Zones
- Verifying the State of the Configured Zones
- Halting the Exclusive IP Zones
- Verifying That the Zones Have Been Halted
- Listing the VNICs That Were Configured for the Halted Zones
- Deleting the VNICs
- Quiz
- Practice 6-2: Creating Two Zones by Using VNICs
- Lesson Agenda
- Allocating and Managing System Resources in a Zone
- Allocating and Managing CPU Resources with Resource Pools
- Enabling Services for Resource Pools
- Configuring a Persistent Resource Pool
- Displaying the Resource Pool Configuration File
- Modifying the Resource Pool Configuration File
- Displaying and Committing the Modified Resource Pool Configuration File
- Displaying the Resource Pool Configuration That Is Currently in Use
- Displaying all Active Resource Pools
- Binding the Zone to a Persistent Resource Pool
- Listing the Current State of the Zones
- Allocating the Pool to the Zone and Confirming the Allocation
- Rebooting the Zone to Activate the Resource Pool Binding
- Confirming the Availability of the Resource Pool
- Removing the Resource Pool Configuration
- Removing the Pool Configuration from the Zone
- Rebooting the Zone
- Checking the Resource Pool Configuration for the Zone
- Deleting the Resource Pool
- Displaying all Active Resource Pools
- Allocating and Managing Physical Memory Resources with Resource Capping
- Practice 6-3 Overview: Allocating Resources to Zones
- Lesson Agenda
- Managing Resources on the Virtual Network
- Determining the Configured VNIC States
- Creating and Adding a Flow
- Displaying Flow Controls
- Setting Flow Properties
- Displaying Flow Control Properties
- Setting a Priority Property
- Practices 6-4 and 6-5 Overview: Managing the Virtual Network Data Flow and Removing Part of the Virtual Network
- Summary