pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen; background: yellow;} OverviewAs typically is the case for...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen; background: yellow;} OverviewAs typically is the case for me, this set of blogs is the result of several customers asking a similar question. This time it is how to automate the installation of Solaris. After I suggest Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c and how it automates this work, they explain to me their reason for doing it manually. Usually it is that they don't...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen; background: yellow;} OverviewAs typically is the case for me, this set of blogs is the result of...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewThis is an optional step to create a Solaris...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewThis is an optional step to create a Solaris Zone. The reason I prefer to use a Zone is that it is much easier to remove all traces of my work, especially when I know I might need to start over again. Also, I can move a Zone, if necessary, to another system.I also separate the Solaris Repository and the Solaris Automated Install Server into two Zones. Both could be...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewThis is an optional step to create a Solaris Zone. The reason I prefer to use a Zone...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewIn this section I will create a Solaris...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewIn this section I will create a Solaris Repository and populate it with the Release and the Support Repository Update (SRU) bits. While the examples here show only Solaris 11.3, a single Repository can hold all releases of Solaris and all SRUs.The recommendation is to put all SRUs into the repository, not just the ones you believe you will install. While this...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewIn this section I will create a Solaris Repository and populate it with the Release and...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewThe automated way of installing a Solaris Global...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewThe automated way of installing a Solaris Global or Non-Global Zone is the Automated Installer, which replaces Jumpstart in Solaris 10 and prior. You can use AI with the repositories Oracle provides at http://pkg.oracle.com or you can use your own. The previous section demonstrates the steps to create your own, and that is what this section will use.In keeping with...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewThe automated way of installing a Solaris Global or Non-Global Zone is the...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewIn the previous section we installed a system...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewIn the previous section we installed a system with the default configuration, just making the necessary change to use a local Solaris repository. Now lets get a bit more specific in what we install.Installing a Specific SRUIf you remember from the previous section, I modified the default manifest to set the Solaris 11 repository server. Nearby in the manifest is...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewIn the previous section we installed a system with the default configuration,...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewNow that we can deploy default or customized...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewNow that we can deploy default or customized Solaris 11 configurations that are built during the installation, let's move to the next step to create a custom installation that can be re-deployed repeatedly with little effort. Solaris 10 and prior have Flash Archives for that. Solaris 11.2 provides Unified Archives, which offers a lot of features that Flash Archives...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewNow that we can deploy default or customized Solaris 11 configurations that are built...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} This is a Placeholder of Work in ProgressOverviewIn the...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} This is a Placeholder of Work in ProgressOverviewIn the previous step I showed how to create a Clone Archive, which you use to quickly and reliably deploy the same packages and configuration to tens or hundreds of systems, Logical Domains (Virtual Machines), or Solaris Zones. A Recovery Archive creates a system image that is used to restore a system. A key difference is...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} This is a Placeholder of Work in ProgressOverviewIn the previous step I showed how to create a...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} BackgroundLast week a customer told me that one of the...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} BackgroundLast week a customer told me that one of the applications they are moving to a new SuperCluster M7 requires 20,000 file descriptors per process! At first I thought they were kidding, however, after looking at the application's documentation, they indeed expect to have a large number of files open at once.After thinking about it a bit, I imagined there might be...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} BackgroundLast week a customer told me that one of the applications they are moving to a new...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewRecently I wrote about how to enable ZFS...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewRecently I wrote about how to enable ZFS encryption for your home directory, in a way that accepts the wrapping key when first logging into the system. This works when it is your home directory. But what about other file systems or pools that you want to encrypt and you want to mount without intervention after a system reboot? This discussion is about how to provide...
pre { display: block; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; margin: 1em 0; background: lightgreen;} OverviewRecently I wrote about how to enable ZFS encryption for your home directory, in a way...
