The Solaris 10 Containers Administration course offers a practical, guided experience working with Solaris Containers, the Sun virtualization feature comprised of Solaris Zones and Solaris Resource Controls. Containers are used to create isolated environments for running applications, and enable server consolidation with low overhead. In this course, you gain the knowledge critical to properly implement and manage these important capabilities in the Solaris Operating System. The hands-on labs offered in this course involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.

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Students who can benefit from this course include system administrators who intend to implement Solaris Zones and Resource Controls on production systems, and individuals who support systems that are configured to use these Solaris capabilities.

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Perform basic UNIX tasks
• Use the vi text editor
• Describe UNIX devices and common administration concepts
• Administer systems at a level consistent with having completed the Solaris System Administration part 1 and 2 courses
• Administer the Solaris 10 operating system
• Administer systems at a level consistent with having completed the Solaris Network Administration course

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

• Describe virtualization trends in the datacenter
• Describe Solaris zones architecture and configure zones
• Connect storage to zones
• Manage packages and patches when zones are present
• Configure persistent resource pools
• Configure many zone resource management features
• Perform zone advanced network management
• Rename, move, clone and migrate Solaris zones
• Backup and restore zones
• Configure lx branded zones

Module 1 - Virtualization Trends in the Datacenter

• Describe the need for virtualization
• Describe the benefits of a dynamic datacenter
• Describe Sun virtualization technologies

• Describe zone features
• Describe zone concepts
• Describe zone types
• Identify zone daemons
• Describe zone models
• Describe zone networking
• Describe zone states

• 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

• Describe different ways to make storage available to zones
• Use UFS with zones
• Use LOFS with zones
• Use ZFS with 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

• 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

• 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

• Describe IP multi-pathing (IPMP)
• Configure IPMP to support a shared-IP zone
• Configure exclusive-IP zones
• Configure IPMP with exclusive-IP zones

• Rename zones
• Move zones
• Clone zones
• Migrate zones from one system to another

• 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

• Describe branded zones
• Plan, configure, and install an lx branded zone
• Boot an lx branded zone
• Configure lx branded zone networking