Solaris 11 OCA

In the general theme of Oracle Solaris 11 as admins we should find that command line tools should stream line the process of tasks and alleviate the need of additional edits to configuration files. In…

De-duplication is a feature of many file system now including Storage Area Networks. Perhaps, in some respects, for larger networks the reliance on using storage within the SAN means that server based de-duplication will be…

Solaris 11 introduces the IPS or Image Packaging System. This provides a simple way to install, update and manage software across your Solaris 11 platforms. The installation of Solaris will normally provide you with the…

If you are using Solaris 11 you have the opportunity to virtualize with zones or using Oracle VM for SPARC. Oracle VM is only available as firmware on compatible SPARC hardware and the hypervisor runs…

Even though ZFS, the Zetabyte File System made its appearance during the life of Solaris 10; in 11 the open Source marvel becomes the default file-system and the root file-system is ZFS. At the heart…

We have seen previously that we can manage the Oracle Solaris 11 network configuration using the command ipadm. In this tutorial we go beyond ipadm and look at how we can create Network Configuration Profiles…