The Sun BigAdmin paper Case Study: Provisioning MySQL Enterprise Server Using Sun xVM Ops Center v2.0 (login or registration required) by Hunter Li uses the MySQL solution by way of example in the process of provisioning a user application to the target servers in a datacenter using Sun xVM Ops Center v2.0. Li writes that the intent of his article is to provide some ideas about different implementations. Readers are assumed to have basic knowledge about Sun xVM Ops Center, its installation, and configuration, none of which is covered in detail in the article.

While the author focuses on provisioning MySQL Enterprise Server software to the gear managed by Sun xVM Ops Center, he writes that by customizing, this approach is applicable to many other types of third-party software or your own software, and this is just one of the many uses of Sun xVM Ops Center. The author points out that Sun xVM Ops Center is a powerful tool that can help in discovering, provisioning, patching, managing, and monitoring gear. These can help ease the administrative work for a large server farm such as a datacenter.

The paper provides an introduction to Sun xVM Ops Center, considering its architecture and its installation and configuration before proceeding to the subject of provisioning MySQL Enterprise Server.

Aspects of the latter subject that are considered include:

• Pre-conditions
• Required files
• Setting up the enterprise controller: Creating a local category; Uploading a local configuration files; Uploading local actions; Creating OS update profiles
• Provisioning: Creating a MySQL Enterprise Server group; Creating an OS update job; Verifying the result.

Several appendices included in the paper provide details on support files for:

• Solaris 10 5/08 OS for SPARC and x86 platforms
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1.19.6
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2

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