Oracle Solaris 11 - How To Articles

Getting Started

• Taking Your First Steps with Oracle Solaris 11

Lifecycle Management

• Overview of Oracle Solaris Release Cadence
• Overview of Image Packaging System in Oracle Solaris
• Automated Application Development and Deployment with DevOps on Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Minimize the Size of Your Oracle Solaris IPS Package Repository
• Building and Deploying Nagios on Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Set Up a Repository Mirroring Service with the Oracle Solaris 11 Image Packaging Service
• Understanding Oracle Solaris 11 Package Versioning
• How to Update Only Java in Your Oracle Solaris 11 System
• More Tips for Updating Your Oracle Solaris 11 Systems from the Oracle Support Repository
• How to Perform System Archival and Recovery Procedures with Oracle Solaris 11
• How To Create Multiple Internal Repositories for Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Update Oracle Solaris 11 Systems Using Support Repository Updates
• Introducing the Basics of Image Packaging System (IPS) on Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Update to Oracle Solaris 11.1 Using the Image Packaging System
• Advanced Administration with the Image Packaging System (IPS) on Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Create and Publish Packages to an IPS Repository on Oracle Solaris 11

System Configuration

• Getting Started with the Remote Administration Daemon on Oracle Solaris 11
• Secure Remote RESTful Administration with Remote Administration Daemon
• Getting Started with Puppet on Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Configure Oracle Solaris 11 Using the sysconfig command
• Introducing the the Basics of Service Management Facility (SMF) on Oracle Solaris 11
• Advanced Administration with the Service Management Facility (SMF) on Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Migrate Control of System Services from Scripts to the Service Management Facility

Cloud Management

• Troubleshooting I/O Load in an Oracle Solaris OpenStack Cloud
• How to Build a Cassandra Multinode Database Cluster on Oracle Solaris 11.3 with LUN Mirroring and IP Multipathing
• Providing High Availability to the OpenStack Cloud Controller on Oracle Solaris with Oracle Solaris Cluster (PDF)

Networking

• How to Build Software Defined Networks Using Elastic Virtual Switches - Part 1
• Advanced Network Monitoring Using Oracle Solaris 11 Tools
• How to Set Up a Load-Balanced Application Across Two Oracle Solaris Zones
• Using Datalink Multipathing to Add High Availability to Your Network
• Doing More with Datalink Multipathing

Data Management

• How to Build a Hadoop 2.6 Cluster Using OpenStack
• How to Determine Oracle Solaris Support for Advanced Format Disks
• How to Consolidate Zones Storage on an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
• How to Optimize Your Enterprise Storage with Oracle Solaris ZFS
• How to Build Native Hadoop Libraries for Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Migrate Your Data to Oracle Solaris 11 Using Shadow Migration
• How to Manage ZFS Data Encryption

Virtualization

• Best Practices for Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones
• How to Get Started Creating Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones in Oracle Solaris 11
• How to get started creating Oracle Solaris Zones in Oracle Solaris 11
• How to Configure a Failover Oracle Solaris Kernel Zone

• How to Automate Compliance Assessments in Oracle Solaris 11