Backup & Restore Practices for Sun Enterprise™ Servers is a practical guide for IT organizations that are tasked with implementing or revamping a backup/restore architecture. The book includes case studies, a methodology, and example runbooks. It addresses issues such as scalability and performance of the backup/restore architecture, criteria for selecting tools and technologies, and tradeoffs that must be considered. It provides technical guidelines for planning the architecture to meet service levels, as well as general advice and guidance.

This new book examines the life cycle of the Solaris Operating Environment (OE) and its boot disk. Recomendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the Solaris OE boot disk are presented in detail. Additionally, this book provides recommendations for installing the Solaris OE, as well as recommendations for managing Solaris OE upgrades with Live Upgrade.

Capacity planning is a well known discipline, particularly for sites that have a mainframe oriented background. The explosive growth of Internet sites and E-commerce has presented new challenges in managing performance and capacity. In many cases, time constraints and business demands can prevent normal capacity planning techniques from being applied. Classic datacenter capacity planning methods can be adjusted, and successfully applied to this new Internet-centric computing environment.

This BluePrint charts a course through the available techniques and tools, examines timescales and return on investment for different methodologies, and provides a framework for decomposing big problems into solvable subproblems.

This new book is an introduction to architecting highly available systems with Sun servers, storage, and the Sun Cluster 3.0 software. Three recurring themes are used throughout the book: failures, synchronization, and arbitration. These themes occur throughout all levels of systems design. The first chapter deals with understanding these relationships and recognizing failure modes associated with synchronization and arbitration. The second and third chapters review the building blocks and describe the Sun Cluster 3.0 software environment in detail.

This book is a model for designing architectures for ISPs of any size. Expressly for IT architects and consultants who design ISP architectures, this book details the design process from start to finish. Throughout this book, whether it's obtaining and evaluating requirements or creating logical and physical designs, we provide helpful tips, insights, and expertise. We compare design approaches, offer suggestions for evaluating trade-offs, and alert you to common pitfalls.

This Sun BluePrint is a practical guide to designing a data center from inception through construction. The fundamental design principles take a simple, flexible, and modular approach based on accurate, real-world requirements and capacities. This approach contradicts the conventional (but totally inadequate) method of using square footage to determine basic capacities like power and cooling requirements.

This guide provides the reader with best practices from Sun Microsystems for architecting multi-tiered datacenter environments. It features documented, automated, and supported security best practices for high-end servers and cluster software. Written for experienced developers and system administrators, it includes tricks, tools, and techniques that hackers use to break into systems, The author details best practices and tools for sniffing out "trojaned" system files and binaries and describes Solaris OE security features, network settings, and minimization.

This Sun BluePrints book provides techniques on using the JumpStart™ technology for automated, standardized, and secure installations of the Solaris™ Operating Environment. In addition, detailed examples of using the JumpStart technology effectively on a day-to-day basis are provided in combination with never before documented features and functions. The materials on the included CD contain the Solaris™ Security Toolkit (formerly known as "JASS") and examples referenced in the book.

Ten years ago, the computing power of a single Unix system barely met the requirements of a typical application. This created a trend to use a large number of smaller systems, each running their own discrete application. Each system managed its own resources for its application. Today, however, the typical server is many times larger, so we often encourage running multiple applications on each system. Unix is a timeshare operating system and attempts to distribute the resources it manages among the applications which it hosts. However, the distribution of these resources does not always align with the requirements of a given application. This often means that required service and performance levels are not met due to conflicting requirements for the same resources.

Resource Management is about managing system resources to optimize service and performance levels, using methodologies that MVS Mainframe administrators are familiar with. By using policies and resource management facilities, we are able to provide control over how resources are allocated to applications.

The Resource Management BluePrint provides an introduction to resource management principles and in depth details on implementating resource management in the Solaris environment. It covers the various tools and techniques that facilitate resource management, as well as how they should be implemented to allow system managers to meet their service level and application performance targets.

Specifically, the Resource Management BluePrint covers:

• Introduction to resource management methodology
• Analysis and application of resource management to workloads
• Measurement and monitoring in a resource managed environment
• Policies for resource management and Sun Microsystems products for Resource Management
• Base Solaris and processor sets
• Solaris Resource Manager
• E10000 system domains and dynamic reconfiguration
• Network Resource Management
• Network batch job management with LSF
• Symon
• Resource management on clusters

Solaris and LDAP Naming Services is a practical guide to implementing Solaris 8 native LDAP on clients and servers. Basic LDAP concepts are covered, as well as naming and authentication architectural details. This BluePrint outlines strategies for consolidating legacy directory services using LDAP technology.

Just a few years ago, personal computers (PCs) were networked together in their own little islands using network services such as NetWare and LAN Manager to share printers and files. As these islands grew in size, administrators were appointed to take care of them. At the time, these administrators only needed to be concerned with the PC network protocols being used within their departments.

With the introduction of Windows NT, a new class of PC servers began to emerge. Instead of just providing file and print services, other services such as email and database applications were provided on PC servers running the Windows NT operating system. PC servers were no longer separate islands and began making their way into the datacenter.

Unix servers, on the other hand, grew up in the datacenter as many mainframe functions were offloaded to UNIX servers. These UNIX servers were administered by trained UNIX administrators who had little contact with PC server administrators.

The arrival of PC servers in the datacenter heralded the arrival of the PC server administrators. Since maintaining two different system administration organizations is expensive, the trend in IT departments is to cross-train the staff. This may seem like a formidable task. However, with a little guidance, experienced PC server administrators can leverage what they know about Windows NT.

Specifically, the Solaris Guide for Windows NT Administrators BluePrint covers:

• Understanding Solaris User Account Management
• Service and Task Management
• TCP/IP Administration
• File Sharing Administration
• Printer Administration
• Email Administration
• Web Services Administration