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Solaris 10 Zones (containers) Administration
(Updated for Solaris 10 release 10/08)

Length: 2 Days                   

Prerequisite: Solaris Intermediate System Administration course or equivalent experience.

Recommendation Statement:
Solaris 10 Intermediate System Administration or five months of experience administering the Solaris operating system.

Course Description: 
This course teaches the student how to administer zones (containers) in the Solaris 10 operating environment. A container is Sun Microsystem’s implementation of virtualization within the Solaris OE. You’ll learn the advantages of using containers, how to implement containers and how to manage containers.  You’ll understand the issues associated with administering Solaris containers in a real world environment. The course includes plenty of hands-on labs and each student will have their own system to practice on.

Upon completion of this course, the student will possess the following skills:

• Introduction to Solaris Zones
• Configuring and Administering non-global Zones
• Booting, halting, cloning and uninstalling non-global Zones
• Moving and migrating Zones
• Backup and Restore Zones
• Allocate and delegate ZFS file systems to Zones
• Administration Packages and Patches in Zones
• Configure Resource Management within Zones
• Perform Zone Backups and Restores

Call (616)-875-4060 for more information or to register