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Archived Solaris Articles
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16 May 2011
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[Just About] Everything there Is to Know about Solaris 11 OS [24168]
Links to Many Aspects of the Upgraded OS from Oracle
Both those individuals absolutely new to the Solaris OS and veteran users as well will be sure to find helpful information in Marius Scholtz's blog entry on Solaris 11, which begins with the basic question, "What is Solaris?" He answers that question in his own words and then proceeds to list some dozen and a half links that lead readers to aspects of Solaris 11 that, collectively, provide a comprehensive view of the OS.
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10 May 2011
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Solaris on the x86 Platform [24178]
Podcast
In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle are joined by special guest Andy Roach, Director of Software Engineering. Together, they discuss why Oracle Solaris on the x86 platform is a key part of Oracle's OS strategy. As the amount of cores and thread counts are increasing on those platforms, learn why Oracle Solaris is a perfect solution for mission critical environments, and ideal for deploying one consistent OS on both the x86 and SPARC architectures.
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09 May 2011
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Solaris Hands-on Lab Explores the World's First Fully Virtualized Operating System [24120]
The Focus is on Solaris ZFS File System
Exploring the World's First Fully Virtualized Operating System is a hands-on-lab tutorial that walks readers through the virtualization of the operating system, the storage and the network, as well as the combination of these three sectors to create an extremely agile system. The two prerequisites to this tutorial are Installing Oracle Solaris 11 Express in Oracle VM Virtual Box and Introduction to the Oracle Solaris 11 ZFS File System. Readers will create some zpools and explore different types of virtual devices (vdevs), creating, two different types of ZFS datasets, file systems and volumes, then customize some properties, snapshot and clone them, and perform some upgrades. In the final, advanced section, readers will look at how some of the other Oracle Solaris services, like NFS (Network File System) and FMA (Fault Management Architecture) are tied into ZFS.
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09 May 2011
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Protect Your Applications with Oracle Solaris Security: Oracle Hands-on Lab [24123]
Examines Privileges, RBAC, and integration with SMF (Service Management Facility)
Yet another addition to Oracle's Hands-on Labs series is "Protect Your Applications with Oracle Solaris Security," which examines privileges, RBAC (Rights and Authorizations) and integration with SMF (Service Management Facility). Students are assumed to have completed the lab "Installing oracle Solaris 11 Express in Oracle VM Virtual Box." There are four lab exercises:
- Introduction to Solaris RBAC and Privileges
- A closer look at Solaris Privileges
- Process privileges and rights
- SMF.process privileges and authorizations
Completion time for all four is approximately one hour.
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05 May 2011
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"Oracle Solaris 11 Express Best Practices: Updating Software" [24154]
Minimizing Risk in Managing Updates
"Oracle Solaris 11 Express Best Practices: Updating Software," an article by Ginny Henningsen, discusses how to perform software updates in Oracle Solaris 11 Express, focusing on best practices that minimize risk. The author includes a helpful table that illustrates the task and technology differences between Solaris OS 10 and Solaris 11 Express. Henningsen observes that, to update or install packages in Oracle Solaris 11 Express, users can assume an authorized role (for example, by issuing a pfexec or su root command) instead of explicitly logging in as root. Command examples in this article presume a privileged user (see “User Accounts, Roles, and Rights Profiles” in Getting Started With Oracle Solaris 11 Express.) The author concludes with the observation that "Oracle Solaris 11 Express uses the underlying functionality of ZFS to create a safe method of software updates. Just as Live Upgrade enabled safe upgrades in Oracle Solaris 10, BEs in Oracle Solaris 11 Express allow you to revert to a previous software state."
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02 May 2011
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Introduction to IPS for Developers: Oracle Hands-on Lab [24121]
How to Set Up a Local IPS Depot Server; Add and Install a Simple Package
The Image Packaging System (IPS) in Solaris 11 Express is a framework that provides life cycle management for binary software installation. Introduction to IPS for developers another of the Oracle Hands-on Labs, shows students how to set up a local IPS depot server, add a simple package and install the package. Contents of the lab are as follows:
Lab exercises
- Introduction to IPS
- Setting up your own local repository
- Package and submit a simple to application to a IPS repository
- Integrating IPS to your build environment
- [Converting your project from SVr4 pkgs to IPS|[EX5]
The expected total time to completion for all three exercises is one hour.
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