Students who can benefit from this course are experienced system administrators and system architects with direct experience working with the Solaris 8, Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 Operating Systems.

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to administer the Solaris 10 OS.:

• Configure and administer the new features of Solaris Zones
• Administer the ZFS file system
• Set up and administer the new features of Predictive Self-Healing
• Explore DTrace fundamentals
• Set up and administer the Network File System (NFS) Version 4 protocol
• Explore changes to Solaris 10 installation

Module 1 - Solaris Zones Configuration

• Identify the features of Solaris Zones partitioning technology
• Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
• Configure zones
• Verify zone configuration
• Export zone configuration
• Install zones

Module 2 - Solaris Zones Administration

• Verify zone configurations
• Install zones
• Boot zones
• Open a zone console
• Rename zones
• Move a zone
• Clone a zone
• Back up and restore non-global zones
• Migrate zones from one machine to another
• Describe system upgrades with non-global zones installed
• Administer packages in zones
• Remove zones
• Configure resource pools

Module 3 - Introduction to the Solaris ZFS File System

• Describe the Solaris ZFS file system
• Create new Solaris ZFS pools and file systems
• Modify Solaris ZFS file system properties
• Mount and unmount Solaris ZFS file systems
• Destroy Solaris ZFS pools and file systems
• Work with Solaris ZFS snapshots and Clones
• Use Solaris ZFS datasets with Solaris Zones

Module 4 - Predictive Self-Healing

• List the benefits of Predictive Self-Healing
• Determine the relationship of Fault Management Architecture (FMA) to Suns Predictive Self-Healing capability
• Determine the relationship of Service Management Facility (SMF) to Suns Predictive Self-Healing capability
• Explore features of the Fault Management Architecture
• Explore features of the Service Management Facility

Module 5 - DTrace Fundamentals

• Describe the features of Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace)
• Write simple D Scripts
• List and enable probes and predicates
• Create action statements
• Explain the use of the pid, syscall, proc, sched, and io Providers
• Describe the DTrace Toolkit and one-liners

Module 6 - NFS Changes

• Describe NFS enhancements
• Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4 (NFS version 4)
• Describe NFS hardware and software requirements, dependencies, and limitations

Module 7 - Security Changes

• Describe the Least Privilege Model
• Examine administration tasks for Solaris OS Cryptographic Framework (SCF)
• Examine Secure by Default
• Explain the lock after retries feature in Secure By Default
• Examine new password encryption methods
• Explain password history, password constrains and password dictionary files

Module 8 - Solaris 10 Operating System Installation Changes

• Describe the Solaris SPARC Boot Architecture Redesign
• Describe upgrading the Solaris OS with installed non-global zones
• Configure multiple network interfaces during installation
• Describe how disk partition tables can be modified using an existing Volume Table of Contents (VTOC)
• Describe the Reduced Networking Software Group
• Explore changes to the Solaris JumpStart software and configure, enable, and troubleshoot JumpStart
• Identify the changes to Flash archives
• Identify changes to the Solaris Live Upgrade boot environment and configure, enable, and troubleshoot the Live Upgrade boot capability