Solaris 10 Logical Domains Administration — A 1-Day Course

 Open Public Course Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

This intensive one-day course covers all the areas necessary to install and administrate the Solaris 10 Logical Domains software on Sun CMT (Core Multi-Threaded) servers. It starts with server access configuration, followed by firmware issues, and then examines building the Solaris 10 OS and installing the latest Logical Domain Manager (LDOM) software. This is followed by LDOM configuration of the Control and Service domains, and a variety of guest domains each running their own operating system. Further administration tasks such as changing domain resources are also covered.

Each student will have exclusive use of a Sun workstation and full access to a CMT server for the duration of the course. Each student will be provided with a full set of training notes.

This course is equivalent to the Sun SA-345-S10 course.

Course Objectives

To train those who know a little Unix more of the "nuts and bolts" of Solaris so that they will make good power users, and have the tools at their command to become excellent administrators and applications support technicians.

Prerequisites

This course is suitable for experienced Solaris 10 administrators.

Follow-ups

You may be interested in our Live Upgrade Workshop, a further one-day course covering the powerful built-in upgrading software.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Contents

Logical Domains Introduction

• LDOM topics covered on this course
• LDoms positioning and uses
• LDoms supported operating systems
• LDoms example scenarios

System Firmware

• Logging in
• Serial line connection
• Erasing firmware password
• Setting a password
• Network access
• Display network settings
• Setting a static network address
• Network access via ssh
• System console (ok prompt)
• Returning to ALOM
• System poweron

Installing Solaris and the Logical Domain Manager (LDM) software

• How to install the Solaris software on the server with considerations for LDOM hosting
• Downloading the LDM software
• Preparing to install LDM software
• Locating firmware patches Installing a firmware update Installing patches

Installing LDOM software

• Logical domain types
• Creating virtual services in the control domain

Control Domain Configuration

• Listing resources
• MAUs
• VPCUs and memory
• Configuration storage
• Control Domain network configuration
• The Virtual Network Terminal Server Daemon (vntsd)
• Do I need separate Service and I/O domains?

Guest Domains

• Creating a Guest Domain
• Listing resources
• Disk space allocation for a Guest Domain
• Using ZFS disk space for a Guest Domain
• Using ZFS emulated volumes for virtual disk
• Creating the Guest Domain and assigning resources

Guest domain OS installs and storage options

• Installing a Guest Domain using an ISO image
• Installing a Guest Domain with network boot
• Building the OS in a Guest Domain
• Guest Domain Golden Image for rapid deployment

Alternatives for domain backend disk storage

• Using a UFS file as a Virtual Disk
• Using an iSCSI target as a Virtual Disk
• Using a physical disk or slice as a Virtual Disk
• Assigning extra storage to existing zones
• Exporting storage multiple times

Network Configuration Options

• Virtual device and interface naming
• MAC Addresses allocation - automatically or manually?
• Configuring IPMP
• VLAN support
• Link aggregations

Guest Domain configuration with XML files

Guest Domains running Solaris 8 and 9

• Solaris 8 zone example with installation

Listing Domain Information - more examples

Reconfiguration of Guest Domain Resources

• Changing the numbers of virtual CPUs and MAUs in a domain
• Changing the amount of memory in a domain
• Immediate and delayed reconfiguration issues
• Migrating guest domains to other systems

Upgrading the Logical Domain Manager Software

Domain Configuration Storage and backup Issues