Solaris 10 Containers

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code.

SA-230-S10

length.

2 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$1,400 :: $1,190 GSA GOV.

The Solaris 10 Containers course describes the Solaris Zones and resource pools features found in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS). Topics include zone features and concepts, configuring zones, resource pools and using the zonecfg command.

LAB INFORMATION: The hands-on labs offered in this course will either use equipment present in the classroom, or involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered through a network terminal session. If the labs run remotely, students will not have physical access to the equipment on which the labs run.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

who can benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are experienced Solaris system administrators.

prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to administer the Solaris 10 Operating System.

skills gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

	Identify the different zones features
	Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
	Configure, install, and boot zones
	Associate zones with resource pools
	Manage packages in systems with zones installed
	Backup and restore zones
	Backup and restore zone configurations
	Understand upgrade capabilities with zones installed
	Configure resource pools
	Configure CPU fair resource scheduling

course content details

	Module 1 - Introduction to Solaris Zones

	Describe the features of zones
	Describe the concepts of zones
	Describe zone daemons
	Describe zone file systems
	Describe zone networking
	Describe zone states

	Module 2 - Configuring zones

	Identify zone components
	Configure zone resources
	Use the zonecfg command to configure zones
	Identify the zonecfg command scope
	Use zonecfg subcommands
	Use zonecfg resource parameters
	Viewing the zone configuration
	Use the zoneadm command
	Verify a configured zone
	Install a configured zone
	Boot a zone
	Log in to the zone console
	Halt a zone
	Reboot a zone
	Log in to and work with zones
	Install packages in zones
	Delete a zone

	Module 3 - Zone Backup, Recovery, and Upgrades

	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 system directories
	Save and restore non-global zone configuration information
	Recover individual non-global zones
	Understand upgrade capabilities for systems with non-global zones installed
	Describe limiting profile keywords when upgrading with non-global zones installed

	Module 4 - Using Features of Dynamic Resource Pools

	Describe configuring zone resources
	Create dynamic resource pools
	Configure resource pools using the poolcfg command
	Describe physical memory control using the resource capping daemon