Solaris 10 Update for Solaris Administrators

Course Overview

Solaris has not undergone such a major change since the introduction of Solaris 2 in the early 90's when Sun converted their operating system from BSD to System V Unix.

The Solaris 10 Update for Solaris Administrators course therefore is essential for existing Solaris administrators who need to update their skills to manage the new Solaris 10 Operating System. The course starts with an overview of the updated existing features and then concentrates on the details of the numerous new features.

Audience

The course contains essential information needed by current Solaris administrators who will be required to administer the new Solaris 10 Operating System.

Prerequisites

A good understanding from an administrators point of view of previous versions of Sun Solaris.

Course Outline

Solaris 10 installation changes

• Media Changes, Multiple NICs, VTOC, JumpStart changes, Flash Archive changes, plus
• WANboot configuration, security & troubleshooting.

Updates to existing features

• File systems. authentication, security.

The Zettabyte File System (ZFS)

• zpools, zfs, RAIDz, snapshots, backup/recovery, ACL

Zones

• Concepts, Configuration, installing, booting, halting, accessing, managing resources

Fault Management Facility

• Architecture, naming schemes, commands, troubleshooting,

Service Management Facility

• SMF architecture, managing SMF Services, troubleshooting SMF

DTrace overview

• Features, architecture, probes and D Scripts

IP Filter Firewall

• Configuring, Filter rules, ipf, ipmon, logging, NAT & PAT rules, ipnat & ipmon

Overview of new & updated networking features

• IPQoS, FireEngine project, TCP multidata enhancement, NFS V4, DHCP changes, SMA

Solaris 10 Update for Solaris Administrators / SOL10U