White Papers & Technical Documents From Sun Microsystems

1.

How to install Solaris 10 on an X86
system - Click Here

A simple 22 step guide to correctly installing Solaris 10 release
05/09 on an X86 system. Even a novice can successfully install Solaris 10.

2.

How to use Dtrace - Click Here

The DTrace Guide will help a new user learn how to gather and use system and application information from a Solaris 10 system.

3.

How to create Solaris Containers
for application consolidation - Click Here

A simple guide for the novice user on how to create Solaris containers for virtualisation and how to allocate CPU resources and access shared storage.

4.

How to Move a Solaris
Container - Click Here

This guide provides step by step instructions on how to move a
virtualised instance of the Solaris operating system (a container)
from one system to another. Code examples are provided.

5.

How to secure a Solaris based
web server - Click Here

This guide will demonstrate how to create a web server in a secure Solaris container and apply user and Process Rights Management to safeguard web content.

6.

How to install a two node Solaris
cluster - Click Here

A simple step by step guide on how to build a cluster.

7.

Upgrading and Patching Solaris
using Solaris Live Upgrade - Click Here

This document demonstrates on how to use the Solaris Live Upgrade application to upgrade Solaris on a live server and apply patches.

8.

Easier System Administration
using Solaris SMF

Document One - Click Here
Document Two - Click Here

A brief guide on how to use the Solaris Service Management facility (SMF) to monitor and manage a Solaris 10 system. A second guide is available on how to create a SMF Service manifest to manage an application.

9.

How to manage systems with ZFS
in Solaris Containers

Document One - Click Here
Document Two - Click Here

This guide shows you how to assign a ZFS file system to a zone, create a file system, apply Quotas and take Snapshots. A second guide focuses uniquely on the creation and use of ZFS snapshots for backups and restores and how to migrate them between systems.

10.

Optimising Solaris 10 on the Intel Nehalem processor - Click Here

This white paper describes the new Solaris 10 features that are
optimised for the Intel Nehalem processor (Xeon 5500 series). These include Intelligent performance, Automated energy efficiency, Reliability and Availability and new Developer tools.

11.

Unleashing performance with Solid
State Drives and Sun Servers - Click Here

A white paper aimed at management that describes the performance benefits of the latest generation Solid State Disk Drives for X86 and SPARC based servers. Solid State Disks are available on free trial so that you can assess the performance benefit within your organisation.

12.

Maximising uptime on Sun SPARC
T5120 and T5220 servers - Click Here

This white paper looks at the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features of the Sun T5120 and T5220 servers in combination with using these SPARC servers for virtualisation.

13.

MySQL guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System - Click Here

This blueprint highlights the features of the Sun Storage 7000
platform that make it an ideal storage solution for MySQL
environments. Examples are given on how to install MySQL using NFS and iSCSI and how to use integrated features such as Snapshots, cloning and rollbacks.

14.

Sun Storage 7000 unified
storage

Document One - Click Here
Document Two - Click Here
Document Three - Click Here
Document Four - Click Here

This white paper describes the Storage 7000 architecture and the use of ZFS and Solid State disks to boost performance whilst reducing the overall storage costs. Blueprints are also available on how to deploy hybrid Storage pools using SSDs, provisioning with iSCSI and ZFS, and configuring J4000 arrays with ZFS in 10 minutes.

15.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on Sun X86 systems

Document One - Click Here
Document Two - Click Here

A white paper is available that describes how to migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2007 on a SUN X86 server.  A simple sizing guide is also available. The hardware is available on a 60 day trial.

16.

Optimising the desktop using Sun XVM
VirtualBox

Document One - Click Here
Document Two - Click Here

Sun XVM VirtualBox is a free desktop virtualization product. You can even virtualise the latest Windows 7 Operating System and get a preview of the new features. This Blueprint document explains how to deploy VirtualBox. A separate white paper is also available on how to deploy virtual desktops on Sun Fire X4600 M2 AMD Servers.

17.

Web consolidation using Apache and Solaris virtualisation

Document One - Click Here
Document Two - Click Here

Sun Servers are ideal for consolidating multiple web servers. Up to 50 instances of Apache can be consolidated onto a single Sun server. A number of white papers are available along with sizing guides.