Prerequisite: Solaris 11 System Administration course or three months of experience administering the Solaris operating system. Must be proficient in the following areas:
- File management commands (vi, cp )
- Navigating file systems
- Understand and set file permissions
- Setting up user accounts and customizing the shell environment
- Image Package System (IPS)
- Service Management Facility (SMF)
Length: 4 days
Course Description:
This course teaches the student how to administer zones (containers) in the Solaris 11 operating environment. A container is Oracle’s implementation of virtualization within the Solaris OE. You’ll learn the advantages of using zones and how to contain the resources of a zone. You’ll understand the issues associated with administering Solaris zones in a real world environment. The course includes plenty of hands-on labs and each student will have their own Solaris system to practice on.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Introduction to Solaris Zones
- Configuring and Administering non-global Zones
- Configure immutable zones
- Booting, halting, cloning and uninstalling non-global Zones
- Moving and migrating Zones
- Backup and Recover Zones
- Allocate and delegate ZFS file systems to Zones
- Administer Packages in Zones
- Update the OS image and packages in a Zone
- Configure networking in a Zone
- Delegate administration to a zone
- Troubleshoot a Zone
- Configure Resource Management within a Zone
