- Establishing a Solaris OE Architectural Model
- Apr 5, 2002
- This sample chapter introduces an architectural model as a framework for designing platform-independent ISP architectures, based upon expertise and Sun best practices for designing ISP architectures.
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- Configuring OpenSSH for the Solaris Operating Environment
- Mar 22, 2002
- This article deals with server and client configurations, key management, and integration into existing environments for the Solaris Operating Environment (OE).
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- Data Center Design Philosophy
- Mar 22, 2002
- This sample chapter lays the foundation for addressing challenges of data center design, through a presentation of the more important design issues, priorities, and philosophies.
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- Enterprise Quality of Service (QoS): Part I - Internals
- Mar 22, 2002
- This two-article series works to clear the confusion surrounding QoS by explaining what it is, how it is implemented, and how to use it in an enterprise. This month's article details the basics surrounding the "what" and "how" of implementation, as well as the internals of QoS.
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- Issues in Selecting a Job Management System
- Mar 22, 2002
- This article addresses the problems usually faced when selecting the most appropriate job management system (JMS) to deploy at HPC sites.
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- Managing Solaris Operating Environment Upgrades With Live Upgrade 2.0
- Mar 22, 2002
- This article, part one of a three-part series, focuses on how Live Upgrade (LU) provides a mechanism to manage and upgrade multiple on-disk Solaris Operating Environments without taking the systems down.
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- Securing Sun Fire 15K Domains
- Mar 22, 2002
- This article describes how the Solaris Operating Environment can be hardened on a Sun Fire 15K domain.
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- Server Virtualization Using Trusted Solaris 8 Operating Environment
- Mar 22, 2002
- This article describes best practices for administrative procedures and configuration files that are required to set up fully contained communities.
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- Sun Cluster 3.0 Implementation Guide: Hardware Setup
- Mar 22, 2002
- This article provides hardware configuration and installation procedures for each component of a Sun Cluster 3.0, two-node cluster.
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- Automating Sun Cluster 3.0 Data Service Setup
- Mar 15, 2002
- This article takes a first step towards providing secured configurations that use Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 software by describing how three specific agents can be deployed in a secured configuration that is supported by Sun Microsystems.
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- Building Sun-Based Beowulf Cluster
- Mar 15, 2002
- This article explains how you can build compute clusters from Sun Microsystems components that competes with Beowulf clusters and above.
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- Configuring Boot Disks
- Mar 15, 2002
- This sample chapter presents a reference configuration of the root disk and associated disks that emphasizes the value of configuring a system for high availability and high serviceability and outlines the methods used create such a system.
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- Managing Systems and Resources in HPC Environments
- Mar 15, 2002
- Written for the compute-intensive site administrator and user, this article highlights the benefits, presents preferred practices, and provides useful recommendations for using enterprise server tools and features available in commercial environments.
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- Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Security: with the Apache and iPlanet Web and Messaging Agents
- Mar 15, 2002
- This article takes a first step in providing secured configurations for Sun Cluster 3.0 software by describing how three specific agents can be deployed in a secured configuration that is supported by Sun Microsystems.
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- The Intelligent Architectures Design Philosophy
- Mar 15, 2002
- This article presents the IA archetypes in brief, as well as rules and recommendations for combining archetypes to design systems and datacenters.
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- WebStart Flash
- Mar 1, 2002
- This sample chapter provides an overview of Flash, the new mechanism for installing the Solaris OE, and also discusses identifying the master machine, creating and administering archives, changing profile keywords or keyword values to support Flash, and using Flash in a complete example installation.
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- Securing the Sun Fire™15K System Controller
- Feb 22, 2002
- This article explains how the Solaris™ Operating Environment (Solaris OE) image that runs on the System Controller (SC) should be configured for secured environments, and what additional software should be installed.
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- Sizing Sun Ray™ Servers Running Windows Applications with SunPCi™ IIpro Coprocessor Cards
- Feb 22, 2002
- This article discusses developing a methodology for sizing a server that supports end users running both Solaris OE based applications and wintel applications. Read on for details on integrating the necessary software components on one server.
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- Application Troubleshooting: Alternate Methods of Debugging
- Feb 8, 2002
- This article discusses a variety of options open to a Solaris Operating Environment user to narrow down the causes and scope of an application failure.
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- Cluster and Complex Design Issues
- Feb 8, 2002
- This sample chapter from the Sun BluePrints book Designing Solutions with Sun Cluster 3.0 examines how failures occur in complex systems and shows methods that contain, isolate, report, and repair failures.
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