Solaris Training : Transitioning to Oracle Solaris 11.1

Transitioning to Oracle Solaris 11.1

Solaris Training Overview

This course presents to an Oracle Solaris 10 user, systems administrator, and application/system programmer, the techniques needed to effectively and successfully move to Oracle Solaris 11.1

Solaris Training Course Objectives

Each participant will see and use the new and modified areas and features of Oracle Solaris 11.1 Hands-on usage and lab exercises will be performed with Solaris 11.1 virtual machines (for each participant), along with one (1) IPS repository server setup in the classroom.

The overall emphasis will be to build on a Solaris 10 knowledge base, showing all of the important and useful features and capabilities that are needed for the best effective use of Solaris 11.1

Solaris Training Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participant has experience with Solaris 10 in the capacity of a (general) user, programmer, system adminitrator, network analyst/administrator, or performance management specialist.

Solaris Training Course duration

This course requires four (4) or five (5) days, 50% lecture and hands-on commands, and 50% lab exercises.

Solaris Training Topics

User- and Programmer- Level New Features and Changes

removed and deprecated utilities

new and improved (system) utilities

shells (bash and Korn)

change in default shell
change in root account environment
comparison of bash and ksh scripting features

Installing and Upgrading Solaris 11.1

changes to the Solaris installation media
methods of starting a Solaris 11.1 installation
- text and automated installer (AI)
- JumpStart migration
post installation operations
creating a customized AI server
creating custom installation media (Distribution Constructor)

Software Packaging and Installation

Image Packaging System (IPS)
IPS repositories and operations
compatibility with the pkg* utilities

Boot and Startup Mechanisms

changes in Solaris 11.1 startup
new areas controlled by SMF
- building a customized manifest
- interacting with startd and configd
new GRUB loader features (bootadm enhancements)

Zones

new features and enhancements
- Solaris 11.1 implementation
  - creation and usage of control daemons
- mirrored storage pools
- migration of Solaris 10 zones (P2V or V2V)
- virtual networking capabilities
  - creating a VNIC
  - connecting a zone with a VNIC
- package management
- patch control, addition, removal
- Solaris 11.1 update considerations with active zones
- renaming, moving, cloning, migrating zones

Zone I/O Performance Management

daemon control
zpool creation considerations
- SMF service(s) (overhead)
  - disabling unnecessary services

Networking

new utilities and enhancements
- Auto-magic (NWAM)
- network configuration profiles and locations
- creating and using flows
- IPMP

User Account Security

new and improved features
- password hashing algorithms
- data encryption

General Utilities

User and Programmer
- replacement of vi with vim
- vim setup and initialization
- old and new style general utilities
Systems Administrator
- removal of Bourne shell
- new /root home directory

Storage

ZFS new and enhanced storage features
- deduplication
- snapshots
- zpool (mirror) split
UFS changes
COMSTAR

ZFS I/O Performance Management

zpool creation considerations
ZFS file system parameters
ZFS compression performance
controlling the ZFS ARC and L2ARC
using the zdb utility

Security Features in Solaris 11.1

BART
configuring and using targeted auditing
file and Directory ACLs
role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Principle of Least Privilege (PLP)
assigning privileges to users and programs

Solaris 11.1 Performance Monitoring Capabilities

kstat (command, modules, libraries)
dtrace (introduction to usage)
kernel tunables (viewing, changing)