Oracle Solaris Containers Administration Training  

Virtualization Trends in the Datacenter

• Describe the need for virtualization
• Describe the benefits of a dynamic datacenter
• Describe Oracle virtualization technologies

Describing Solaris Zones and Containers

• Identify the features of Solaris Zones partitioning technology
• Describe when zone partitioning is used
• Describe zone types
• Identify zone daemons
• Describe zone models
• Describe zone networking
• Describe zone states
• Differentiate between a zone and a container

Creating, Installing, and Booting Zones

• Configure zones
• Install zones
• Boot zones
• Halt a zone
• Access a running zone from the global zone
• Complete zone system identification steps in various ways

Connect Storage to Zones

• Describe different ways to make storage available to zones
• Use UFS with zones
• Use LOFS with zones
• Use ZFS with zones

Managing Packages and Patches Within Zones

• Describe the Oracle Solaris Zones software package management features
• Add packages to zones
• Remove packages from zones
• Describe the Oracle Solaris Zones software patch management features
• Apply patches to zones, including using the zones parallel patching enhancement for all Solaris 10 releases
• Remove patches from zones
• Identify Solaris update methods available on systems with non-global zones installed

Configuring Persistent Resource Pools

• Describe resource management concepts
• Describe resource pool concepts
• Determine which resource pool configuration is appropriate
• Configure a persistent resource pool
• Bind one or more zones to a persistent pool

Configuring Resource Management With Zones

• Describe new zone resource management features in the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
• Describe and implement use of the Fair Share Scheduler class
• Configure temporary resource pools using zone configurations
• Configure CPU shares for zones
• Configure memory capping for zones
• Configure an absolute fine-grained cap on the amount of CPU resources that can be consumed by a zone

Performing Zone Advanced Network Management

• Describe IP multi-pathing (IPMP)
• Configure IPMP to support a shared-IP zone
• Configure exclusive-IP zones
• Configure IPMP with exclusive-IP zones

Renaming, Moving, Cloning, and Migrating Zones

• Rename zones
• Move a zone to another location on the same system
• Clone a zone
• Migrate zones from one machine to another
• Perform a trial migration before migrating a zone
• Migrate a physical Oracle Solaris system to a zone

Performing Zone Backups and Restores

• Describe how to create backups on systems with zones installed
• Relate non-global zone configurations to backup and recovery requirements
• Make zone backups from the global zone
• Make backups from within a non-global zone
• Understand limitations on backing up loopback file systems
• Save and restore non-global zone configuration information
• Recover individual non-global zones

Migrating a Physical Solaris System into a Zone

• Describe how to migrate a physical Oracle Solaris System into a Zone (P2V)
• Understand the P2V capabilities of Solaris 10
• Prepare for system migration
• Configure the zone on the target system in preparation for migration
• Install the zone on the target system
• Boot the zone to complete migration

Configuring the lx Branded Zone

• Describe branded zones technology
• Plan, configure, and install an lx branded zone
• Boot an lx branded zone
• Configure lx branded zone networking
• List the operation system types supported by branded zones
• Administer applications in an lx rranded zone