Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators, IT architects, and other individuals tasked with the following responsibilities:
- Planning server consolidation
- Configuring logical domains
- Administering virtualized OS environments
Prerequisites
- Administer the Solaris 10 OS
- Administer Ethernet networks
- Perform basic server initial setup tasks
Skills Gained
- Identify IT datacenter virtualization tends
- Describe the benefits of logical domains
- Explore logical domain architecture
- Prepare a system to support logical domains
- Create logical domains
- Reconfigure logical domains
- Create Split PCI configurations
Course Content
Module 1 - Virtualization Trends in the Datacenter
- Describe the virtualization need
- Describe the benefits of an dynamic datacenter
- Describe Sun Microsystems virtualization technologies
Module 2 - Logical Domains Fundamentals
- Describe LDoms architecture
- Identify appropriate hardware platform
- Describe core/thread affinity model on CMT systems
- Describe Hypervisor software concepts
- Describe the LDoms Manager
- Define LDoms domain types: - Control domain - I/O domain - Service domain - Guest domain
- Define LDom virtualization
- Determine what to partition
- Identify physical resources
- Define virtual devices and services
- Identify Ldom configuration guidelines andrequirements
- Identify resource requirements for control domains
- Identify resource requirements for I/O and service domains
- Determine how many domains are needed
- Define cryptographic devices and virtual CPUs
- Identify logical domains configuration requirements and guideline
Module 3 - Preparing a System to Support Logical Domains
- Install the required firmware to support LDoms
- Identify which hardware to use
- Configure a system to support LDoms
- Perform Solaris configuration: - Obtain the correct build of the Solaris OS - Check the Solaris OS version - Patch Solaris to include the latest Ldoms support
- Perform Firmware configuration: - Check firmware versions - Update firmware version
- Run the install-ldm script: - Logical domains manager and security packages - User access to run ldm commands
- Administer security: - Security toolkit - RBAC - Audit controls
- Perform a quick test of the logical domains manager
Module 4 - Creating a Control and Service Logical Domain
- Describe the Logical Domains Manager (LDoms) ldm command
- Identify control and service domain resources
- Create default virtual services
- Setup the control domain
Module 5 - Creating a Guest Domain
- Create a guest logical domain
- JumpStart a guest logical domain
- Verify a guest logical domain configuration
Module 6 - Advanced Logical Domain Administration
- Add and remove virtual CPUs to logical domains
- Add memory to logical domains
- Configure a group console
- Create a split PCI configuration
- Configure file-based virtual disks
- Configure ZFS-based virtual disks
- Configure virtual switch and service domain for NAT and routing
- Configure IPMP in the logical domain environment
- Configure virtual I/O failover
- Backup, remove, and restore logical domains