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Solaris Containers Administration

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Introduction

Virtualization Trends in the Datacenter

Describing Solaris Zones and Containers

Creating Installing and Booting Zones

Connecting Storage to Zones

Managing Packages and Patches Within Zones

Configuring Presistant Resource Pools

Configuring Resource Management With Zones

Performing Zone Advanced Network Management

Renaming, Moving, Cloning, and Migrating Solaris Zones

Performing Zone Backups and Restores

Configuring lx Branded Zones

Solaris Zones Fundamentals
 
From Oracle Documentation

Introduction to Solaris Zones


From www.oracle.com:

Solaris Containers for System {Admins, Architects, Engineers} PDF slide presentation.

Oracle Solaris 11 Express Virtualization Technology.

From Solaris How-To Guides:

Solaris How-To Guides, "Consolidating Servers and Applications" :LINK: :PDF:.

From Sun BluePrints:

From the Sun BluePrint program, Solaris Containers Architecture Guide.

From Sun BluePrints, Guide to Solaris Containers.


From Sun Developers:

Sun Developers Forum Solaris Zones.

Sun Developers Networks' Bringing Your Application Into the Zone article.

Sun Developers Networks' Horizontal Scaling on a Vertical System Using Zones in the Solaris 10 OS.


Bloggers:

From Menno Lageman's Weblog Monitoring zone boot and shutdown using DTrace.

The dtrace script from module 1, you can cut and paste from this page or download the link.

The Clingan Zone blog Securing a zone using the Solaris Security Toolkit


From OpenSolaris.org

Opensolaris.org has a number of public mailing lists called 'discussions', covering a variety of subjects. Use this link to sign up to the Zones and/or Performance discussions.

Opensolaris.org Zones and Containers FAQ can be found at the OpenSolaris Community: Zones web portal.


Other:

From wikis.sun.com, Containers Wiki.

Lisa XVIII paper Solaris Zones:Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads in PDF format.

Sysadmin journal Solaris 10 Zones Defense article.

Sysadmin journal System Security in SolarisTM 10: Privileges and Zones in Perspective article.

From the Solaris Internals site, Zones.

The Route from Solaris 10 Zones to Server Consolidation information from a customer consolidation project using Solaris zones.

Solaris Containers

New zone features in Solaris 10 update 9