Solaris 10 Containers

Course Overview

The Solaris 10 Containers course describes the Solaris Zones and resource pools 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.

LAB INFORMATION: The hands-on labs offered in this course will either use equipment present in the classroom, or involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered through a network terminal session. If the labs run remotely, students will not have physical access to the equipment on which the labs run.

Audience

Students who can benefit from this course are experienced Solaris system administrators.

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
• Install zones
• Boot zones
• Configure resource pools
• Configure CPU fair resource scheduling
• Cap physical memory resource

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to administer the Solaris 9 Operating System.

Course Outline

Module 1 - Introduce Solaris Zones

• Describe the features of zones
• Describe the concepts of zones
• Configure zones

Module 2 - Using the zonecfg Command to Configure Zones

• Identify the zonecfg resource paramaters
• Walk-through zone configuration
• Viewing the zone configuration file

Module 3 - Using the zoneadm Command to Install and Administer Zones

• Verify a configured zone
• Installing, booting, halting, rebooting, deleting, and looging into a working zone

Module 4 - Identify Features of Dynamic Resource Pools (681)

• Describe resouce pools in zones
• Configure resource pools
• Zone-wide Fair Share scheduling
• Allocate file system space