Oracle has developed Solaris 11 with simplification and modernization of installation as one of the key areas of focus and the lowering of up-front and ongoing costs of deploying Oracle Solaris-based systems and software stacks as one of the principal goals. A few of the benefits of these new Oracle Solaris installation technologies are:
Improvement for the cloud-driven software lifecycle process
Reduced complexity resulting from enterprise-scale flexibility features in the product
Unified design that supports various installation options
Enabled end-users able to take advantage of modern network protocols and architectures with WAN-based network and file-based software repositories
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Log on to view a half hour video on the Oracle Technology Network featuring Dave Miner, architect for Solaris Installation, describes the changes to the installation process and tools for Solaris 11. Miner begins his review with a look at Jumpstart, explaining how much easier installs are with Solaris 11 tools. The new automated installer will do remarkably better what Jumpstart was designed to do, Miner contends. Much more detail is in the video.
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In his tutorial "Oracle Solaris 10 Jumpstart Server Setup" Brian Leonard is careful to caution readers that the material does not apply to Solaris 11, which has a different mechanism for bulk installations over the network. The procedure focuses on Solaris 10, Update 9 for x86 machines. In the subject example Leonard writes that he assumes all clients have the same hardware configuration, and the task is to configure Solaris 10 on them similarly. Leonard provides all the code necessary to complete the 11-step procedure in his article.
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Oracle's Hardware Management Pack comprises two components: an SNMP monitoring agent and a family of cross platform Command Line (CLI) tools for managing and configuring Oracle Sun Fire x86 servers. The Sun Server Management Agent component provides an in-band SNMP agent for monitoring the server hardware and storage. The cross platform command line tools run on Solaris, Linux (Oracle Enterprise Linux, and current releases from Red Hat and Novell), and Microsoft Windows 2008.
The tools. listed below, provide powerful and flexible configuration and update capabilities.
ilomconfig, configure the service processor
biosconfig, configure the BIOS
raidconfig, configure RAID components
fwupdate, update firmware
All configuration tools are Capable of loading
The Hardware Management Pack saved the day for Peter Tribble, who blogs about his efforts to build a jumpstart profile and to map from the WWN-based device names to physical positions on the chassis of the SPARC T3-1 and the x86-based X4170 M2.
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Oracle Solaris 11 Express server can perform two different functions, writes Mary Ding in "Installing Oracle Solaris 10 Using JumpStart on an Oracle Solaris 11 Express Server." These are to serve Oracle Solaris 11 Express OS installations using Automated Installer and to serve Oracle Solaris 10 OS installations using JumpStart. Ding describes the procedure for setting up a JumpStart install server on an Oracle Solaris 11 Express system. She provides code samples as well as suggested workarounds.
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