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.

This demonstration offers an example of the required Oracle Solaris 11 OS configuration for Oracle RAC Database install. An assumption is made that the Grid Infrastructure and the Clusterware is pre-configured with two nodes. The OS configuration and the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) steps are shown to include all the required steps before the actual database install. The demonstration includes step-by-step walkthroughs of each task associated with the RAC Database install.

Oracle Solaris 11 provides DTrace for dynamically tracing systemic problems in real time. It is designed to quickly identify the root cause of system performance problems. This demonstration illustrates the use of DTrace to examine slow throughput of an application on a system.

In this practice, you work with CLI commands to create an iSCSI target on your server. To achieve this goal you will first create an iSCSI Logical Unit Number (LUN) and then create the iSCSI target itself.

In this practice you work with the  CLI commands to perform common software update tasks such as adding, removing, and searching for packages.

You also learn how to perform a “dry run” on package installations. This allows you to see the changes that will occur on the system when a package is installed, without actually installing the package.

In this practice, you explore Oracle Solaris 11 network virtualization by configuring VNICs and an etherstub to work within two pre-configured Oracle Solaris zones, and then configure that virtual network for public access.

In this practice, you configure the AI server to automatically install an Oracle Solaris 11 desktop client on the network using the AI default settings.

This demonstration provides an example of the physical-to-virtual (P2V) method for migrating workloads from a physical machine to a virtual machine using Oracle Solaris Zones technology. During this demonstration, workloads running in the Oracle Solaris 10 physical environment are migrated to an Oracle Solaris 11 zone. The demonstration includes step-by-step walkthroughs of each task associated with the P2V migration.

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.

This demonstration illustrates the effectiveness of parallel garbage collection as against serial garbage collection.

This demonstration illustrates how hardware cryptography in Java 7 can be used to significantly improve the performance of cryptographic algorithms on Oracle SPARC T-series systems.

This demonstration shows how to perform IPS-based installation of Oracle Solaris Studio on Oracle Solaris 11

This demonstration illustrates the performance gains obtained from a Fork/Join sorting operation performed on a T3-2 system.