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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By : Philip P. Brown
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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

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By: Philip P. Brown
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Overview of this book

Oracle Solaris provides innovative, built-in features that deliver breakthrough high availability, advanced security, efficiency, and industry-leading scalability and performance to help businesses grow. "Oracle Solaris 11: First Look" covers the new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11 and how these new features and improvements will make it easier to deploy services to the enterprise while improving performance and reducing total cost of ownership.This book starts with coverage of Image Packaging System and the new installation methods. It then moves swiftly to network configuration. The book also includes some security features and improvements.  
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look
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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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IPS – The Image Packaging System
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IPS – The Image Packaging System
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The brave new world of IPS
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Repositories/repos
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Package naming schemes
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Overview of package and patch installation
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Practical examples of pkg command usage
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Dealing with repositories
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Package updates and patching
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Summary
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Solaris 11 Installation Methods
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Solaris 11 Installation Methods
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It's the Oracle of install systems!
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Default passwords
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Installation from CD-ROM
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Overview of how AI install works
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Network bootstrap process details
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Setting up a local install server with installadm
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Common traps and pitfalls
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Solaris 11 release version versus support version
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Summary
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Sysadmin Configuration Differences
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Sysadmin Configuration Differences
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Welcome to the new normal
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Host identity: the sysconfig command
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Driver configuration: /etc/driver/drv
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Network address configuration: ipadm and dladm
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Wireless configuration: Stick to the GUI if you can
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Miscellaneous differences in system-level configuration
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Summary
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Networking Nuts and Bolts
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Networking Nuts and Bolts
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Networking re-architected
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Orientation to new Solaris 11 networking
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Interface naming and IP labels
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NWAM – NetWork AutoMagic
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IPMP – IP multipathing
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Link aggregation
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VNIC – Virtual NIC
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VLAN tagging
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IP tunneling
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Bridging
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Network resource management
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Other changes
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Summary
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NWAM – Networking Auto-reconfiguration
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NWAM – Networking Auto-reconfiguration
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What is NWAM and how you can use it
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Summary
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ZFS – Now You Can't Ignore It!
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ZFS – Now You Can't Ignore It!
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ZFS – your future, today
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ZFS root – no more UFS
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ZFS booting and beadm
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ZFS, beadm, and zones
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Deduplication now possible
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ZFS encryption
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ZFS diff between snapshots
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Miscellaneous changes and improvements
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Summary
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Zones in Solaris 11
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Zones in Solaris 11
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Taking things to the next zone
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New zone utilities
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New zone capabilities
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Fast zone creation via clone
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Automatic Network Interfaces – the anet resource
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Preconfiguring zones
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Immutable zones
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Summary
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Security Improvements
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Security Improvements
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Keeping the horse in the barn
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Mandatory auditing
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Immutable zones
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ProFTPd is the new FTP server
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Sudo privileged access tool
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Direct root use now blocked by default
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Fine-grained RBAC privileges
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On-disk encryption
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Summary
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Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous
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What's in this chapter anyway?
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Virtual consoles, also known as virtual terminals, are back
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Fast reboot
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CUPS printing
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Power management
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Notifications triggered by SMF state transitions
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Trusted Solaris extras
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COMSTAR and iSCSI
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Summary
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IPS Package Reference
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IPS Package Reference
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New ACL Permissions and Abbreviations
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New ACL Permissions and Abbreviations
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Solaris 10 Available Enhancements
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Solaris 10 Available Enhancements
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ZFS backported enhancements
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Other enhancements
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Index
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Index

Network bootstrap process details

Now that the client-side details have been mentioned, you may be interested in the specifics of the client/server bootstrap interactions. The actual setup of this aspect of things is now primarily handled by installadm, covered a little further on.

Keep in mind that the initial bootstrap process for network installation for SPARC versus x86 is still very different for each architecture. The backend configuration is new, but still unified for both of them. However, a summary of each follows.

SPARC, wanboot, and DNS

SPARC still uses wanboot at the lowest level. The official Oracle method says that you must use DHCP boot, but whether you boot from media, or directly from network, it still basically just hooks into wanboot as its first stage.

The additional benefit from booting the first stage through DHCP is that it picks up DNS information. In theory, they could have made it pick up DNS from other means, but they have not chosen to do that at this time. This is...

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