The Unix and Linux Essentials course is designed for users and administrators who are new to the Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris operating systems. It will help you develop the basic UNIX skills needed to interact comfortably and confidently with the operating system.
The Oracle Linux 7: What's New for Administrators course explains the expanded possibilities Oracle Linux 7 brings system administrators. Explore new or modified tools, task flows, and options in installation, networking, management, storage and more.
Learn to increase Oracle Database performance and improve user response time by deploying Oracle's Flash Accelerator hardware with Oracle's Database Smart Flash Cache feature
The Oracle VM Server for SPARC: Installation and Configuration course teaches you to effectively implement the infrastructure for cloud computing using a SPARC-based virtualization strategy. Learn through classroom instruction and hands-on exercises, which reinforce new concepts.
This page brings you information on Oracle's virtualization products and solutions.
The Oracle Solaris 11 Zones Administration training is an advanced course offering that builds on Oracle Solaris 11 system administration courses. Expert Oracle University instructors will help you develop the skills and knowledge required to administer Oracle Solaris Zones server virtualization technology.
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This paper describes how to implement an increasingly useful type of virtualization known as root domains.
The Oracle Solaris Elastic Virtual Switch (EVS) feature enables you to manage virtual switches that are spread across multiple physical machines hosting several virtual machines (VMs). This demonstration illustrates the use of EVS to provide connectivity between the virtual machines connected to it from anywhere in the network.
Oracle Solaris 11.2 supports two types of authentication material for Internet Key Exchange (IKE), preshared keys and public key certificates. A preshared key is a string of hex or ASCII characters that only two IKE systems know. The keys are called preshared because both endpoints must know the value of the key before the IKE exchange. This key must be part of the IKE configuration on both systems. The preshared key is used in the generation of the IKE payloads, which make up the packets that implement the IKE protocol. The system that processes these IKE payloads uses the same key to authenticate the payloads that it receives. The preshared key is not exchanged between the IKE endpoints by using the IKE protocol. Typically, the key is shared with the peer system over a different medium, such as a phone call. The preshared key on the peers that use this authentication method must be identical. The keys are stored in a file on each system.
Oracle Solaris 11.2 introduces the Unified Archives feature that enables creating a single archive for redeployment either as clones within a cloud envrionment or for system backup and disaster recovery purposes. You can quickly capture a complete bare-metal system, virtual environments, or a combination of both. This demonstration illustrates the use of Unified Archives to deploy a system via Automated Installer.
This demonstration offers an example of how to configure Integrated Load Balancer in Oracle Solaris 11 facilities to improve the business application performance. Two non-global zones apache1-zone and apache2-zone are created along with a zone (called ilb-zone), which has the Oracle Solaris facility called Integrated Load Balancer (ILB). The ILB intercepts the incoming requests from clients and allocates them to a server based upon the loading balancing rules. ILB executes optional health checks and provides the data for the load-balancing algorithms to verify if the selected server can handle the incoming request. In this demonstration, the incoming traffic is routed to the virtual servers (two zones) to balance the workload. In order to keep this demonstration to a reasonable length, it is assumed that Oracle database is installed on the main system. Configuration of the main workload distribution mechanism is demonstrated.