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Articles for the keywords: zones
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15 Aug 2012
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Pre-Flight Checker for Solaris 11 Now Available in New Version [27245]
Free Download at Solaris Download Page
The Pre-Flight Checker tool designed by Stefan Schneider, et al., at Oracle Systems ISV Engineering, is now available in a new version. The tool, which is available for free download from the Solaris Download page, lets users know whether a particular app will work on Solaris 11 without modification. Included in the latest version are such features as: Fully globalized product, currently with support for English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese; detectors for issues due to static linking of system libs and mutex alignment; kernel checker to reveal usage of private kernel interfaces (binary as well source scanner)
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02 Aug 2012
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No More Jumpstart: Automated Installer Is the Tool to Use [27102]
Integration with Oracle Solaris 11 Technologies Enables a Truly 'Automatic' Installation
The new software deployment architecture feature automated installer in Solaris 11, capable of everything Jumpstart could perform while also able to create, configure and install Oracle Solaris Zones; install onto a root ZFS pool; install software with automatic dependency checking from remote-network-based package repositories -- all as a result of its tight integration into the various technologies in the operating system itself -- frees admins from the labors Jumpstart required. Glynn Foster recommends Isaac Rozenfeld's guide "How to Set up Automated Installation Services in Oracle Solaris 11" as a starting point for readers new to the automated installer feature.
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24 Jul 2012
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Finding the Path from RHEL 6 to Oracle Solaris 11 [27026]
Mapping Guide Shows the Way
A post on oracle.com offers advice to those moving from RHEL to Oracle Solaris OS in the form of a mapping guide between RHEL 6 and Solaris 11. For each general technology area, the author lists the main features of Oracle Solaris 11, their advantages, and how the command lines and configuration files map between the two operating systems - whether it's between RPM and IPS, KVM and Oracle Solaris Zones, Upstart and the Service Management Facility (SMF). The guide is designed to give administrators familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux a first step on where to get more information.
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24 Jul 2012
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How to Manage ZFS Data Encryption [27023]
Versatile Feature of Solaris 11 Offers Many Capabilities
As Darren Moffat's article on OTN demonstrates, the encryption capability built in to Solaris 11 is truly versatile. He shows how easily a user can encrypt data with ZFS, how file systems can accommodate both encrypted and unencrypted data, and how users can manage encryption both locally and remotely. All the necessary code to carry out these steps is included in the article, of course. Much more can be done with ZFS encryption, Moffat writes in his conclusion, including combining encryption, compression, and data deduplication. It is even possible to provide completely transparent encryption for Oracle Solaris Zones, he asserts.
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12 Jul 2012
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Delegation of Solaris Zone Administration [26855]
Enabling Management of Distinct Zones by Particular Admins
In Delegation of Solaris Zone Administration, Darren Moffat blogs that, with the Zone Delegation feature built in to Solaris 11, users delegate management of distinct zones. Moffat uses the example of zones named zoneA through zoneF and three admins to each of whom it is necessary to grant a subset of the zone management. One can either add the admin resource to the appropriate zones via zonecfg(1M) or store data directly in the RBAC database, showing all three admins and zones. One can also create an RBAC profile that then assigns the appropriate degree of administrative responsibility to each admin.
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