Virtualization Trends in the Datacenter
- Describe the need for virtualization
- Describe the benefits of a dynamic datacenter
- Describe Sun virtualization technologies
Describing Solaris Zones and Containers
- Describe zone features
- Describe zone concepts
- Describe zone types
- Identify zone daemons
- Describe zone models
- Describe zone networking
- Describe zone states
Creating, Installing, and Booting Zones
- Configure and verify zones
- Export zone configurations
- Install zones
- Boot and halt zones
- 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 package management features for zones
- Use package commands with zones
- Describe patch management features for zones
- Use patch commands with zones
- Describe Solaris 10 OS update methods available when zones are configured
Configuring Persistent Resource Pools
- Describe resource management concepts
- Describe resource pool concepts
- Configure a persistent resource pool
- Bind one or more zones to a persistent pool
- Change a running zones pool binding
Configuring Resource Management With Zones
- Describe new zone resource management features in the Solaris 10 10/09 release
- 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 a limit on CPU resources 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 zones
- Clone zones
- Migrate zones from one system to another
Performing Zone Backups and Restores
- Describe creating backups on systems with zones installed
- Relate non-global zone configurations to backup and recovery requirements
- Make zone backups from the global zone
- Make various backups from the non-global zone
- Understand limitations on backing up loopback file system directories
- Save and restore non-global zone configuration information
Configuring the lx Branded Zone
- Describe branded zones
- Plan, configure, and install an lx branded zone
- Boot an lx branded zone
- Configure lx branded zone networking