Solaris is a UNIX operating system developed by Sun
in the late 1980s and based on AT&T SVR4. Since that time it has been through numerous
upgrades and enhancements. From
2005,
the majority of Solaris source code has been released under as
open source
under the CDDL
license.
Here are some books about Solaris:
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Install and configure the Solaris 10 operating environment on SPARC and x86/x64-based platforms
Set up, manage, back up, and recover file systems
Execute System Boot and Shutdown Procedures for SPARC and x86/x64-based systems
Manage services using the Service Management Facility (SMF)
Perform User and Security Administration
Set up and manage printers and system processes
Perform system backup and recovery operations
“Bill’s original Cert Prep guides were used throughout Sun’s service organization as the SEs studied for Certification. This was not mandated by Sun management but happened through word-of-mouth by those software engineers who had successfully passed the exam. In this new edition, Bill adds a chapter to explain the boot process (from POST to service initialization through SMF) on both SPARC and x86 systems. All chapters have been updated to reflect the Solaris 05/08 updates including detailed coverage of the x86 platform. This new guide is still the best source I know of to study for the exam. –Brian Howard, Systems Engineer / Solaris Ambassador
WRITTEN BY A LEADING SOLARIS EXPERT!
Bill Calkins is owner and president of Pyramid Consulting, a computer training and consulting firm specializing in the implementation and administration of open systems. He works as a consultant with Sun Microsystems and has contributed extensively to the Solaris certification program and simulation technology. He also owns www.unixed.com, a website that provides online UNIX training materials. Bill has more than 20 years of experience in UNIX system administration, consulting, and training at more than 250 different companies and government agencies and has authored several books on Solaris.
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"The Solaris™Internals volumes are simply the best and most comprehensive treatment of the Solaris (and OpenSolaris) Operating Environment. Any person using Solaris--in any capacity--would be remiss not to include these two new volumes in their personal library. With advanced observability tools in Solaris (likeDTrace), you will more often find yourself in what was previously unchartable territory. Solaris™ Internals, Second Edition, provides us a fantastic means to be able to quickly understand these systems and further explore the Solaris architecture--especially when coupled with OpenSolaris source availability."
--Jarod Jenson, chief systems architect, Aeysis
"The Solaris™ Internals volumes by Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall must be on your bookshelf if you are interested in in-depth knowledge of Solaris operating system internals and architecture. As a senior Unix engineer for many years, I found the first edition of Solaris™ Internals the only fully comprehensive source for kernel developers, systems programmers, and systems administrators. The new second edition, with the companion performance and debugging book, is an indispensable reference set, containing many useful and practical explanations of Solaris and its underlying subsystems, including tools and methods for observing and analyzing any system running Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris."
--Marc Strahl, senior UNIX engineer
Solaris™ Internals, Second Edition, describes the algorithms and data structures of all the major subsystems in the Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris kernels. The text has been extensively revised since the first edition, with more than 600 pages of new material. Integrated Solaris tools and utilities, including DTrace, MDB, kstat, and the process tools, are used throughout to illustrate how the reader can observe the Solaris kernel in action. The companion volume, Solaris™ Performance and Tools, extends the examples contained here, and expands the scope to performance and behavior analysis. Coverage includes:
Virtual and physical memory
Processes, threads, and scheduling
File system framework and UFS implementation
Networking: TCP/IP implementation
Resource management facilities and zones
The Solaris™ Internals volumes make a superb reference for anyone using Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.
Solaris™ 10 System Administration Essentials is the first book to concisely yet comprehensively cover all of the breakthrough features of the Solaris 10 operating system. The Solaris OS has a long history of innovation, and the Solaris 10 OS is a watershed release that includes features such as
Zones, which provide application isolation and facilitate server consolidation
ZFS™, the file system that provides a new approach to managing your data with an easy administration interface
The Fault Management Architecture, which automates fault detection and resolution
The Service Management Facility, a unified model for services and service management on every Solaris system
Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), for troubleshooting OS and application problems on production systems in real time
In addition, the Solaris 10 OS fully supports 32-bit and 64-bit x86 platforms, as well as the SPARC® architecture.
The book’s key topics include
Installing, booting, and shutting down a system
Managing packages and patches (software updates)
Controlling system processes
Managing disks and devices
Managing users
Configuring networks
Using printing services
Solaris™ 10 System Administration Essentials is part of a new series on Solaris system administration. It is a practical guide to deploying and managing the Solaris 10 operating system in a business or academic environment. The book is easy to read and rich with examples–a perfect companion for system administrators who are deploying the Solaris OS for the first time.
Product Description: Sobell's book combines the strengths of a tutorial and a reference so that beginners and experienced users alike will gain the knowledge and develop the skills to learn and use Solaris--the Sun Microsystems version of the UNIX operating system. An excellent on-going resource for reference, this book requires no programming experience, and is compatible with all releases of Solaris 2.x and both the Intel (x86) and Sparc versions of Solaris.
Product Description: Virtualization and related technologies like hypervisors, which create virtual machines on a single hardware machine, and containers (also known as zones), which create virtual operating systems running on a single operating system, are a totally new area for many system administrators.
Oracle® Solaris™ 10 System Virtualization Essentials provides an accessible introduction to computer virtualization, specifically the system virtualization technologies that use the Oracle Solaris or OpenSolaris operating systems. This accessible guide covers the key concepts system administrators need to understand and explains how to
Use Dynamic Domains to maximize workload isolation on Sun SPARC systems
Use Oracle VM Server for SPARC to deploy different Oracle Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris environments on SPARC CMT (chip multithreading) systems
Use Oracle VM Server for x86 or xVM hypervisor to deploy a server with heterogeneous operating systems
Use Oracle VM VirtualBox to develop and test software in heterogeneous environments
Use Oracle Solaris Containers to maximize efficiency and scalability of workloads
Use Oracle Solaris Containers to migrate Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 workloads to new hardware systems
Mix virtualization technologies to maximize workload density
Starting with a discussion of system virtualization in general terms—the needs of consolidation, the benefits of virtualization, and a description of the most common types of computer virtualization—this book also covers many of the concepts, features, and methods shared by many implementations of system virtualization.
Oracle’s computer virtualization technologies that are directly related to the Oracle Solaris OS are described in detail along with a discussion of the factors that should be considered when choosing a virtualization technology. Finally, several examples of these technologies and an overview of virtualization management software are provided, as well as a history of virtualization.
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