Solaris 10 and 11 Installation, Management and Monitoring made easy. Central Management Server with support for automated deployment of LDoms and Zones
XPDS14 - Intel(r) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) Posted In...The Linux Foundation
With the development of virtualization, there are more device assignment requirements. Based on VT-d interrupt remapping, Intel introduces VT-d interrupt posting as a more enhanced method to handle interrupts in the virtualization environment. The Posted Interrupts (PI) on CPU side has been already supported in Intel CPUs, with VT-d Posted Interrupt we can get some additional advantages, it can directly deliver external interrupts to running vCPUs without hypervisor involvement, decease the interrupt migration complexity, differentiate between urgent and non-urgent external interrupt, and avoid consuming host-vector for each interrupt to vCPU. In this presentation, Feng will talk about the mechanism of VT-d PI and its advantages, as well as some performance data of I/O intensive workload in Xen, which will show the performance gain after using VT-d PI.
This document discusses VMware performance troubleshooting. It covers topics like root cause analysis, performance characteristics of CPU, memory, disk and networking, and tools like ESXTop, vm-support and the service console. It provides guidelines on capacity planning, virtual machine optimization and design best practices.
XPDDS18: The Art of Virtualizing Cache Maintenance - Julien Grall, ArmThe Linux Foundation
The Arm architecture allows for a wide variety of cache configurations, levels and features. This enables building systems that will optimally fit power/area budgets set for the target application.
A consequence of this is that architecturally compliant software has to cater for a much wider range of behaviors than on other architectures. While most software uses cache instructions that don't need special treatment in a virtualized environment, some will want to directly manage a given cache using set/way instructions and will introduce challenges for the hypervisor to handle them.
This talk will give an overview of how caches behave in the Arm architecture, especially in the context of virtualization. It will then describe the problem of using set/way instructions in a virtualized environment. We will also discuss the modifications required in Xen to handle those instructions.
- The document describes issues that can cause the Xen hypervisor tool "xenwatch" to stall when destroying or creating virtual machines (domUs).
- One cause is leftover "inflight packets" in the network backend driver that prevent xenwatch threads from stopping. Resetting the network interface can help.
- Other potential causes involve idle block tags being unavailable or persistent grant pages remaining mapped due to storage or filesystem issues.
- The proposed solution is to run a dedicated xenwatch kernel thread per domU to avoid locking issues and allow independent processing of events.
Vincent Legout presented on Gandi's experience upgrading from Xen 4.1 to Xen 4.8. Gandi virtualizes approximately 10,000 VMs using Xen and upgraded to take advantage of new features in 4.8 like live patching. The upgrade process involved building new tools to convert VM formats and live migrate VMs between hypervisors. While some issues occurred with disk corruptions and crashes, overall Gandi has been satisfied with Xen 4.8, especially its security support and new live migration capabilities.
Exchange 2007 SP1 provides additional features for the Exchange Management Console including enhanced LCR configuration and new toolbox tools. It also expands Outlook Web App capabilities such as personal distribution lists and S/MIME. Continuous replication is introduced to provide high availability and recovery options between Exchange servers. Exchange 2007 SP1 supports both Windows Server 2008 and 2003, though there are some differences in features and requirements between the server operating systems. The document provides guidance on installing SP1 and transitioning to Windows Server 2008.
XPDS14 - Intel(r) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) Posted In...The Linux Foundation
With the development of virtualization, there are more device assignment requirements. Based on VT-d interrupt remapping, Intel introduces VT-d interrupt posting as a more enhanced method to handle interrupts in the virtualization environment. The Posted Interrupts (PI) on CPU side has been already supported in Intel CPUs, with VT-d Posted Interrupt we can get some additional advantages, it can directly deliver external interrupts to running vCPUs without hypervisor involvement, decease the interrupt migration complexity, differentiate between urgent and non-urgent external interrupt, and avoid consuming host-vector for each interrupt to vCPU. In this presentation, Feng will talk about the mechanism of VT-d PI and its advantages, as well as some performance data of I/O intensive workload in Xen, which will show the performance gain after using VT-d PI.
This document discusses VMware performance troubleshooting. It covers topics like root cause analysis, performance characteristics of CPU, memory, disk and networking, and tools like ESXTop, vm-support and the service console. It provides guidelines on capacity planning, virtual machine optimization and design best practices.
XPDDS18: The Art of Virtualizing Cache Maintenance - Julien Grall, ArmThe Linux Foundation
The Arm architecture allows for a wide variety of cache configurations, levels and features. This enables building systems that will optimally fit power/area budgets set for the target application.
A consequence of this is that architecturally compliant software has to cater for a much wider range of behaviors than on other architectures. While most software uses cache instructions that don't need special treatment in a virtualized environment, some will want to directly manage a given cache using set/way instructions and will introduce challenges for the hypervisor to handle them.
This talk will give an overview of how caches behave in the Arm architecture, especially in the context of virtualization. It will then describe the problem of using set/way instructions in a virtualized environment. We will also discuss the modifications required in Xen to handle those instructions.
- The document describes issues that can cause the Xen hypervisor tool "xenwatch" to stall when destroying or creating virtual machines (domUs).
- One cause is leftover "inflight packets" in the network backend driver that prevent xenwatch threads from stopping. Resetting the network interface can help.
- Other potential causes involve idle block tags being unavailable or persistent grant pages remaining mapped due to storage or filesystem issues.
- The proposed solution is to run a dedicated xenwatch kernel thread per domU to avoid locking issues and allow independent processing of events.
Vincent Legout presented on Gandi's experience upgrading from Xen 4.1 to Xen 4.8. Gandi virtualizes approximately 10,000 VMs using Xen and upgraded to take advantage of new features in 4.8 like live patching. The upgrade process involved building new tools to convert VM formats and live migrate VMs between hypervisors. While some issues occurred with disk corruptions and crashes, overall Gandi has been satisfied with Xen 4.8, especially its security support and new live migration capabilities.
Exchange 2007 SP1 provides additional features for the Exchange Management Console including enhanced LCR configuration and new toolbox tools. It also expands Outlook Web App capabilities such as personal distribution lists and S/MIME. Continuous replication is introduced to provide high availability and recovery options between Exchange servers. Exchange 2007 SP1 supports both Windows Server 2008 and 2003, though there are some differences in features and requirements between the server operating systems. The document provides guidance on installing SP1 and transitioning to Windows Server 2008.
XPDS14 - RT-Xen: Real-Time Virtualization in Xen - Sisu Xi, Washington Univer...The Linux Foundation
Recent years have seen an increasing demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualized environments. To combine real-time and virtualization, a real-time scheduler at the hypervisor level is needed to provide timing guarantees to the guest virtual machines. RT-Xen provides a suite of multi-core real-time schedulers to deliver real-time performance to domains running on the Xen hypervisor. Work is underway to incorporate RT-Xen in the Xen distribution to replace the legacy SEDF scheduler. We have implemented and empirically compared a diverse set of multicore real-time scheduling policies within the RT-Xen scheduling framework. Based on extensive experiments of different scheduling policies, we plan to submit a patch on global EDF scheduler to the xen-devel as the first step to incorporate multicore real-time scheduling support within the Xen hypervisor.
High Availability Options for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud ControlSimon Haslam
This document discusses high availability options for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. It describes the architecture with a web tier, application tier, database, and agents. It outlines approaches for high availability including using a load balancer with two OMS nodes and a single database instance. Additional licensing is required for high availability configurations beyond a single database instance like RAC, Data Guard, or multiple OMS nodes. It concludes with a demonstration of simulating an OMS node or network failure in an environment with a load balancer and dual OMS nodes.
This document provides an overview of kernel tuning and customizing for performance on Enterprise Linux. It discusses monitoring tools, basic tuning steps like disabling unused services, memory tuning including hugepages and transparent huge pages, swap/cache tuning. It also covers I/O and filesystem tuning and networking tuning. The goal is to provide concepts and approaches for tuning the major components to optimize performance.
This document provides an overview of device passthrough in ACRN. It discusses how device passthrough provides near-native performance by allowing direct access to devices but limits access to single VMs. It describes how ACRN utilizes DMA remapping and interrupt remapping to virtualize device access while maintaining isolation. Code handling is outlined for assigning devices, handling interrupts, and virtualizing ACPI. Limitations discussed include driver dependencies, reset handling, and interrupt programming. New device support requires testing functionality and dependencies in the hypervisor.
The document introduces the Yocto Project and the meta-acrn layer. It describes how the meta-acrn layer integrates the ACRN hypervisor with Yocto to provide kernel support and customized images for Service OS and User OS. It outlines the steps to configure and build Service OS and User OS images, including deploying the UOS images into the SOS image. It also explains how to boot ACRN using the built images from the ESP or EFI shell.
VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution - Best Practicesthephuck
This was the slide deck from the Philadelphia VMUG User Conference for the VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution session on May 15th, 2014.
LF Collaboration Summit: Xen Project 4 4 Features and FuturesThe Linux Foundation
Xen Project 4.4 Release Information.
Delivered by Russell Pavlicek at Linux Foundation Collaborative Summit on March 27, 2014.
Updated for LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America in August 2014.
Cinder enhancements are proposed to better support replication and other long-running volume operations using stateless snapshots. The enhancements include allowing volume drivers to report capabilities like stateless snapshots, tracking task status separately from volume status, and replicating snapshots between backends. This would enable optimizations like transferring snapshot data directly between storage controllers instead of through Cinder.
This talk explores what has gone in so far in the Linux kernel (version 3.0 and 3.1) and which Linux distributions are deliverinbg Xen again. The otalk explores outstanding challenges and the pieces that are missing and what we can do, and what we cannot do working with Linux.
VMworld 2013: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager – Solution Overview and Le...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Thomas McQuillan, UnitedHealth Group
This document discusses recommended architectures and best practices for deploying Hadoop on VMware vSphere. It recommends deploying Hadoop nodes across multiple virtualization hosts with 10Gb networking for high performance. The standard deployment places data nodes on shared storage and task trackers on local disks. It also discusses planning the cluster size, hardware requirements including CPU, memory, storage and networking considerations. Configuration recommendations include using NTP, proper virtual disk settings, enabling NUMA and avoiding overcommitting resources.
The document summarizes a company's experience migrating from vSphere 4.1 to 5.0. It describes challenges like multiple datacenters and versions. The company addressed this with a phased approach: installing a new vCenter and database in a separate management cluster, making vCenter highly available, and using a "shuttle" host to migrate VMs between old and new environments while maintaining network connectivity. Post-migration tasks included upgrading Update Manager, applying permissions and folder structures, and using Update Manager for ongoing updates.
"Relax and Recover", an Open Source mksysb for Linux on PowerSebastien Chabrolles
This deck was presented during IBM systems technical university in London (2016).
Have you ever dreamed to have an "MKSYSB like" solution to quickly backup/restore your Linux on Power ? If the answer is YES, the opensource solution named Relax and Recover (ReaR) may be for you. Come to this session to learn more about how to implement and the capabilities of this solution through presentation and live demonstration.
Xenalyze is a tool that analyzes Xen tracing data to provide meaningful summaries. It processes trace records to aggregate information and see larger trends. Xenalyze can output data in various formats like dump mode, summary mode, and interval mode. It has been used in case studies to analyze performance issues with Windows XP and TPR as well as shadow page tables.
This document discusses IBM's virtualization technology for System p servers. It provides an overview of logical partitioning (LPAR), micro-partitioning, and dynamic LPAR capabilities. It also describes virtual I/O technologies like virtual SCSI and virtual Ethernet that allow sharing of network and storage devices between partitions. The document notes that these virtualization features help optimize resource utilization and reduce hardware costs through server consolidation.
This document introduces XtraBackup Manager, a command line tool written in PHP5 that leverages cron, netcat and ssh to automate MySQL backups across Linux and Solaris servers. It works by installing XtraBackup on backup and database servers, then using XtraBackup Manager to schedule and run full or incremental backups to designated storage volumes. Key features include throttling, email alerts, logging and materialized backups to reduce restore times, with the goal of providing an open source alternative to proprietary backup solutions.
As part of the Google Summer of Code, we tried to add support for SeaBIOS in order to allow guest OSes to be booted directly from PV disk devices rather than from the emulated disk device. SeaBIOS is the BIOS implementation that upstream qemu uses. When the virtual machine is created, SeaBIOS upon initialization uses a generic Xenstore client to communicate with the back end and initialize the front-end block device that will connect to the back end. After the connection is established I/O requests are made via the BIOS int 0x13 interface, guest OSes use the int 0x13 without needing to be aware that PV drivers were used.
OpenQRM is an open-source data center management platform that provides virtualization and management of physical and virtual machines. It has a pluggable architecture that allows it to support various operating systems and virtualization technologies. OpenQRM provides capabilities such as rapid provisioning, load balancing, monitoring, and improving server utilization to reduce costs.
Increase Efficiency of Solaris Operations & Hardware Life CycleJomaSoft
Current Oracle SPARC Server are very powerful and include the Virtualization Technologies LDoms and Zones. This Servers are the ideal platform for Consolidation Projects. But the complexity and knowledge requirements of System Administrators increase. Standardisation and Automation is the Key. Why always install Applications into Solaris Zones? How does JomaSoft set-up Solaris Environments when combining LDoms and Zones. JomaSoft implemented "Best Practices" into an own CLI Management Framework for highly automated Management and Migration of Servers, LDoms and Solaris Zones. Review of JomaSoft's SPARC Server Life Cycle Projects of the past years. We replaced old SPARC Servers in a few days instead of a few weeks.
This document summarizes Kumar Jayaraman's experience as a system administrator. It lists his extensive experience administering servers running Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, and AIX. It also details his expertise in areas like VMware ESXi administration, Oracle WebLogic administration, Veritas NetBackup and Storage Foundation administration, and Solaris zones and logical domain configuration. Recent professional experience is provided for system administration roles at Verizon Wireless and Sun Microsystems involving tasks like server installation, backup configuration, storage management, and troubleshooting.
XPDS14 - RT-Xen: Real-Time Virtualization in Xen - Sisu Xi, Washington Univer...The Linux Foundation
Recent years have seen an increasing demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualized environments. To combine real-time and virtualization, a real-time scheduler at the hypervisor level is needed to provide timing guarantees to the guest virtual machines. RT-Xen provides a suite of multi-core real-time schedulers to deliver real-time performance to domains running on the Xen hypervisor. Work is underway to incorporate RT-Xen in the Xen distribution to replace the legacy SEDF scheduler. We have implemented and empirically compared a diverse set of multicore real-time scheduling policies within the RT-Xen scheduling framework. Based on extensive experiments of different scheduling policies, we plan to submit a patch on global EDF scheduler to the xen-devel as the first step to incorporate multicore real-time scheduling support within the Xen hypervisor.
High Availability Options for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud ControlSimon Haslam
This document discusses high availability options for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. It describes the architecture with a web tier, application tier, database, and agents. It outlines approaches for high availability including using a load balancer with two OMS nodes and a single database instance. Additional licensing is required for high availability configurations beyond a single database instance like RAC, Data Guard, or multiple OMS nodes. It concludes with a demonstration of simulating an OMS node or network failure in an environment with a load balancer and dual OMS nodes.
This document provides an overview of kernel tuning and customizing for performance on Enterprise Linux. It discusses monitoring tools, basic tuning steps like disabling unused services, memory tuning including hugepages and transparent huge pages, swap/cache tuning. It also covers I/O and filesystem tuning and networking tuning. The goal is to provide concepts and approaches for tuning the major components to optimize performance.
This document provides an overview of device passthrough in ACRN. It discusses how device passthrough provides near-native performance by allowing direct access to devices but limits access to single VMs. It describes how ACRN utilizes DMA remapping and interrupt remapping to virtualize device access while maintaining isolation. Code handling is outlined for assigning devices, handling interrupts, and virtualizing ACPI. Limitations discussed include driver dependencies, reset handling, and interrupt programming. New device support requires testing functionality and dependencies in the hypervisor.
The document introduces the Yocto Project and the meta-acrn layer. It describes how the meta-acrn layer integrates the ACRN hypervisor with Yocto to provide kernel support and customized images for Service OS and User OS. It outlines the steps to configure and build Service OS and User OS images, including deploying the UOS images into the SOS image. It also explains how to boot ACRN using the built images from the ESP or EFI shell.
VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution - Best Practicesthephuck
This was the slide deck from the Philadelphia VMUG User Conference for the VMware Site Recovery Manager - Architecting a DR Solution session on May 15th, 2014.
LF Collaboration Summit: Xen Project 4 4 Features and FuturesThe Linux Foundation
Xen Project 4.4 Release Information.
Delivered by Russell Pavlicek at Linux Foundation Collaborative Summit on March 27, 2014.
Updated for LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America in August 2014.
Cinder enhancements are proposed to better support replication and other long-running volume operations using stateless snapshots. The enhancements include allowing volume drivers to report capabilities like stateless snapshots, tracking task status separately from volume status, and replicating snapshots between backends. This would enable optimizations like transferring snapshot data directly between storage controllers instead of through Cinder.
This talk explores what has gone in so far in the Linux kernel (version 3.0 and 3.1) and which Linux distributions are deliverinbg Xen again. The otalk explores outstanding challenges and the pieces that are missing and what we can do, and what we cannot do working with Linux.
VMworld 2013: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager – Solution Overview and Le...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Thomas McQuillan, UnitedHealth Group
This document discusses recommended architectures and best practices for deploying Hadoop on VMware vSphere. It recommends deploying Hadoop nodes across multiple virtualization hosts with 10Gb networking for high performance. The standard deployment places data nodes on shared storage and task trackers on local disks. It also discusses planning the cluster size, hardware requirements including CPU, memory, storage and networking considerations. Configuration recommendations include using NTP, proper virtual disk settings, enabling NUMA and avoiding overcommitting resources.
The document summarizes a company's experience migrating from vSphere 4.1 to 5.0. It describes challenges like multiple datacenters and versions. The company addressed this with a phased approach: installing a new vCenter and database in a separate management cluster, making vCenter highly available, and using a "shuttle" host to migrate VMs between old and new environments while maintaining network connectivity. Post-migration tasks included upgrading Update Manager, applying permissions and folder structures, and using Update Manager for ongoing updates.
"Relax and Recover", an Open Source mksysb for Linux on PowerSebastien Chabrolles
This deck was presented during IBM systems technical university in London (2016).
Have you ever dreamed to have an "MKSYSB like" solution to quickly backup/restore your Linux on Power ? If the answer is YES, the opensource solution named Relax and Recover (ReaR) may be for you. Come to this session to learn more about how to implement and the capabilities of this solution through presentation and live demonstration.
Xenalyze is a tool that analyzes Xen tracing data to provide meaningful summaries. It processes trace records to aggregate information and see larger trends. Xenalyze can output data in various formats like dump mode, summary mode, and interval mode. It has been used in case studies to analyze performance issues with Windows XP and TPR as well as shadow page tables.
This document discusses IBM's virtualization technology for System p servers. It provides an overview of logical partitioning (LPAR), micro-partitioning, and dynamic LPAR capabilities. It also describes virtual I/O technologies like virtual SCSI and virtual Ethernet that allow sharing of network and storage devices between partitions. The document notes that these virtualization features help optimize resource utilization and reduce hardware costs through server consolidation.
This document introduces XtraBackup Manager, a command line tool written in PHP5 that leverages cron, netcat and ssh to automate MySQL backups across Linux and Solaris servers. It works by installing XtraBackup on backup and database servers, then using XtraBackup Manager to schedule and run full or incremental backups to designated storage volumes. Key features include throttling, email alerts, logging and materialized backups to reduce restore times, with the goal of providing an open source alternative to proprietary backup solutions.
As part of the Google Summer of Code, we tried to add support for SeaBIOS in order to allow guest OSes to be booted directly from PV disk devices rather than from the emulated disk device. SeaBIOS is the BIOS implementation that upstream qemu uses. When the virtual machine is created, SeaBIOS upon initialization uses a generic Xenstore client to communicate with the back end and initialize the front-end block device that will connect to the back end. After the connection is established I/O requests are made via the BIOS int 0x13 interface, guest OSes use the int 0x13 without needing to be aware that PV drivers were used.
OpenQRM is an open-source data center management platform that provides virtualization and management of physical and virtual machines. It has a pluggable architecture that allows it to support various operating systems and virtualization technologies. OpenQRM provides capabilities such as rapid provisioning, load balancing, monitoring, and improving server utilization to reduce costs.
Increase Efficiency of Solaris Operations & Hardware Life CycleJomaSoft
Current Oracle SPARC Server are very powerful and include the Virtualization Technologies LDoms and Zones. This Servers are the ideal platform for Consolidation Projects. But the complexity and knowledge requirements of System Administrators increase. Standardisation and Automation is the Key. Why always install Applications into Solaris Zones? How does JomaSoft set-up Solaris Environments when combining LDoms and Zones. JomaSoft implemented "Best Practices" into an own CLI Management Framework for highly automated Management and Migration of Servers, LDoms and Solaris Zones. Review of JomaSoft's SPARC Server Life Cycle Projects of the past years. We replaced old SPARC Servers in a few days instead of a few weeks.
This document summarizes Kumar Jayaraman's experience as a system administrator. It lists his extensive experience administering servers running Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, and AIX. It also details his expertise in areas like VMware ESXi administration, Oracle WebLogic administration, Veritas NetBackup and Storage Foundation administration, and Solaris zones and logical domain configuration. Recent professional experience is provided for system administration roles at Verizon Wireless and Sun Microsystems involving tasks like server installation, backup configuration, storage management, and troubleshooting.
VDCF is a management tool for virtualizing and monitoring Solaris environments. It allows centralized installation, operation, migration, monitoring, security, hardening and disaster recovery of Solaris zones, LDoms, and bare metal servers. VDCF provides simplicity, standardization, and high availability for private clouds. It has been in production use since 2006 to virtualize and manage Solaris environments.
This document contains the resume of Ashok Kumar Kamsali, who is currently a Senior Test Engineer at Prolifics specializing in Linux and Solaris systems administration. Prior to his current role, he worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Customer Support Engineer for several telecommunications companies. His experience includes installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux and Solaris servers, networking equipment, databases, and telecommunications applications. He has expertise in virtualization, storage, backup solutions, and testing methodologies.
Dhanraj Sharma is seeking a position that utilizes his skills and experience in Linux system administration, cloud technologies like AWS and OpenStack, and other operating systems including Solaris, Red Hat, and Windows. He has over 7 years of experience in technical support roles, performing tasks such as software installation, user management, security administration, and troubleshooting issues. His educational background includes a diploma in software engineering and degrees in arts.
IBM provides an open and standards-based approach to cloud management for Linux on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE. This includes supporting Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) via the open source OpenStack platform. IBM is committed to OpenStack and contributes drivers and platform support to upstream OpenStack projects. Currently IBM offers an OpenStack-enabled appliance for zSystems that provides OpenStack APIs without additional charge. IBM's strategy is to enable the OpenStack APIs on zSystems and LinuxONE platforms to allow for cross-cloud management and orchestration.
JomaSoft provides the Virtual Datacenter Control Framework (VDCF) tool for managing Solaris virtualization technologies like LDoms and zones. VDCF allows for centralized installation, operation, migration, monitoring and failover of virtual environments. It has been in production use since 2006 supporting both Solaris 10 and 11 on SPARC and x86 hardware. VDCF aims to simplify management of the virtual datacenter and provide high availability, disaster recovery and flexibility through dynamic virtualization and live migration capabilities.
The document provides an overview of how to build a hybrid cloud by extending an on-premises datacenter into VMware vCloud Air. It outlines the five main steps as: 1) sizing cloud resources, 2) designing networks, 3) establishing network connectivity, 4) deploying supporting infrastructure, and 5) expanding the hybrid footprint. Additionally, it discusses vCloud Air's structure including dedicated clouds, virtual private clouds, and core services like IaaS, DaaS, and RaaS that can be mixed and matched. The presentation aims to help readers think differently about hybrid cloud and treat vCloud Air resources as just another physical location.
Oracle Solaris 11 platform for ECI Telecom private cloud infrastructure Orgad Kimchi
This document describes an Oracle Solaris 11 private cloud infrastructure project for ECI Telecom. The goals are to utilize built-in Solaris 11 technologies without additional third-party software, provide high economic value through efficient hardware utilization and downtime minimization, and minimize development costs by reusing existing solutions. The solution uses Solaris zones, ZFS, and other Solaris 11 technologies. Benefits include extending hardware lifespan, minimizing application changes, fast deployment and reliable upgrades. It provides tools for creating, managing, monitoring, and migrating branded and native zones within the private cloud.
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. http://www.allpass4sure.com/microsoft-pdf-70-410.html
CentOS is a Linux distribution that is functionally compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It provides a free, enterprise-class platform for servers. CentOS includes Apache web server, PHP, MySQL, Postfix email server, and other components commonly used for web hosting. It has a control panel called CentOS Web Panel that makes it easy to manage users, websites, and server configuration. Customers report that CentOS is stable and suitable for production use, providing an alternative to paid enterprise distributions at no cost.
The document provides an agenda and details for the Linux Days 2013 conference in Tampa, FL on May 16, 2013. The agenda includes sessions on SUSE Linux Enterprise updates, SUSE Cloud 101, and SUSE Cloud 202. Additional details are provided on SUSE's product portfolio, ecosystem, and leadership in open source communities. Technical highlights of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 include updates to hardware enablement, systems management, virtualization, security, and high availability. Emerging technologies are also presented as technology previews.
Mirza Asim has over 9 years of experience as an Oracle consultant. He has extensive expertise in implementing and supporting Oracle engineered systems like Exadata and Exalogic. Some of his responsibilities include configuring Exadata and Exalogic clusters, implementing GoldenGate for data replication, migrating databases to Exadata, installing and patching Oracle software, and provisioning and upgrading Oracle Fusion Middleware and Applications. He is looking for a position that allows him to further demonstrate his skills with Oracle technologies.
This resume summarizes the qualifications and experience of Prasant Chettri, a Microsoft and VMware certified engineer with over 12 years of experience in Windows systems administration, networking, and virtualization. He has extensive experience with technologies like Active Directory, Exchange, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and storage solutions from NetApp, HP, and Dell. Recent projects include Exchange migrations, VMware View desktop deployments, and SQL and SharePoint implementations. He is proficient in technologies, tools, and concepts related to Windows servers, networking, virtualization, desktop management, and backup/recovery solutions.
This document contains a summary of the professional experience and qualifications of RAMA.KUPPAGIRI. It lists over 9 years of experience as a Linux, Solaris, and VMware administrator, including expertise in systems administration, networking, storage, virtualization, and automation/monitoring tools. Key skills include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Solaris, VMware vSphere, and scripts/configurations in Bash, Python, Perl.
This document contains a curriculum vitae for Sivaiah Yakkanti. It summarizes his work experience of 11 years in server administration, virtualization, and storage concepts. He has technical expertise in areas like Windows, Hyper-V, VMware, Linux administration, Active Directory, Exchange administration, antivirus administration, and more. He also has professional certifications in areas like VMware VCP, Red Hat, Microsoft, AWS, and ITIL. The CV highlights his most recent role as a Senior System Engineer with Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, where he is responsible for enterprise administration, Hyper-V infrastructure, and other tasks.
This document provides a summary of M. Razi Ahmad's experience as a System Administrator over 18 years. It outlines his expertise in Linux and Windows server administration, VMware virtualization, Cisco UCS, EMC storage, and backup software. Previous employers include the City of Atlanta where he currently works as a Senior System Engineer, Electronic Data Systems, and BellSouth/BAPCO. Core competencies include system implementation, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
SOUG - Experiences with Oracle Solaris 11.4JomaSoft
Oracle Solaris 11.4 was launched in August 2018.
What are the new features in the area of Zones, ZFS and Security?
What was delivered in the last 30 monthly updates?
Public Cloud ist nicht immer die beste Lösung.
Mit Automatisierung kann man auch effiziente Private Clouds aufbauen.
SPARC Server mit LDoms eignen sich gut für Private Cloud
#DOAG2019
UKOUG - What is Delivered with Solaris 11.4JomaSoft
Solaris 11.4 provides several new features including a web dashboard for system overview and analytics, improved ZFS functionality like asynchronous destroy and resumable replication, and more flexible zone configuration options. It also addresses some challenges from previous versions like OpenLDAP changes. Overall, the document recommends migrating to Solaris 11.4 for its long term support through 2034 and new management and security capabilities.
Increase Efficiency of Solaris Operations & SPARC Life CycleJomaSoft
JomaSoft has experience with SPARC and Solaris since 2000!
How to replace old SPARC Systems.
Use the JomaSoft VDCF tool to automate this task.
Performance comparison of recent SPARC CPUs.
Im Januar 2018 hat Oracle eine Beta Version von Solaris 11.4 veröffentlicht. Die finale Version soll im laufenden Jahr zur Verfügung stehen. Dieser Vortrag zeigt den praktischen Nutzen der neuen Features: Solaris Dashboard, ZFS und Zonen.
Sicherheit, Compliance, Höchsteistung mit SPARC/SolarisJomaSoft
Sicherheit, Compliance, Höchsteistung alles inklusive in SPARC/Solaris Architekturen.
Mit VDCF bietet die JomaSoft das Tool für zentralen Compliance Report und Hardening.
UKOUG Tech17 - Stay Secure With Oracle SolarisJomaSoft
IT Security is more important than ever. Solaris 11 is installed "Secure by Default". Weak and modified configuration can be detected using the Security Compliance tool.
On SPARC Systems Buffer Overflows can be detected. The Virtualization Features increase the overall Security by Separation of Applications. This Session provides samples to allow you to learn how to use this Security Technologies.
Zahlreiche virtuelle Umgebungen installieren und betreiben
geht nur effizient mit dem geeigneten Tool. Wir stellen es vor :
JomaSoft VDCF for Oracle Solaris
Effizienter Hardware LifeCycle auf Oracle SPARC M7 ServerJomaSoft
Durch die Nutzung von Solaris LDoms und Zonen können Applikationen ohne Anpassungen auf die neuen SPARC M7 Server migriert werden. Mit dem Tool VDCF sehr effizient.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
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VDCF Overview
1. 1
Virtual Datacenter Management
using the
Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework (VDCF)
Marcel Hofstetter
hofstetter@jomasoft.ch
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch
CEO / Enterprise Consultant
JomaSoft GmbH
Oracle ACE „Solaris“
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About JomaSoft
Engineering company founded July 2000
specialized in Solaris, software
development/integration and consulting
Product VDCF (Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework)
Installation, Management, Monitoring, Security
and DR on Solaris 10/11, Virtualize using LDoms
and Solaris Zonen
VDCF is used in Production since 2006
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VDCF – Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework
Management Tool for BareMetal, LDoms and Zones
Installation, Operation, Migration, Monitoring,
Failover and Security
Supports Solaris 10 + 11 on SPARC/x86
In productive use since 2006
Centrally installed using the lightweight, serverless
database SQLite
Dynamic Virtualization
Live / Cold Migration and Failover
Resource Configuration and Monitoring
Agility for your Enterprise Private Cloud
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VDCF - Goals
Central view and control of the virtual data center
Standardization: uniform System configuration
As easy as possible for the System administrator
Consistent interfaces for admins (Solaris 10 and 11)
Avoid mistakes: Fully automated Installation & Migration
Flexible: Hardware can be mixed, VDCF adapts the configuration
when migrating
Reduce Complexity: Layer above Solaris / Hide the details
„Best Practices“ are integrated ongonig into the product
Cheap and easy solution for failover and DR
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VDCF Base - Features
CLI and Web Dashboard
Builds
Create and manage your Solaris Installation Environments
Based on Solaris JumpStart/Flash Archives and AI / Unified Archives
Node
System/Device/Disk Discovery
Install Nodes using Solaris WANBOOT & Flash Archives or AI
Configure Solaris Global Zone
DNS, NTP, SMF Services, ROUTES
System Customization / Basic Software Installations
Packages, Commands, Scripts, File-Copy
Operations
Boot / Reboot / Shutdown
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VDCF vServer - Features
Configuration
Dataset Management (Volumes) - SVM,ZFS,Veritas
Filesystem and Network Interface Management
(addfs, addnet, growfs, remnet, remfs, clonefs)
Configure Solaris Zone
DNS, SMF Services, ROUTES
System Customization / Basic Software Installations
Packages, Commands, Scripts, File-Copy
Import existing Zones
Operation
Install/Uninstall vServer
Boot / Reboot / Shutdown
Migrate one or multiple vServers
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VDCF – Enterprise Features
Datasets & Disks
Veritas Dataset & Filesystem Management
Cluster Support
Integrates vServers and LDoms into Oracle Solaris Cluster for Failover
Resource Management
Configure / limit Resource Usage of vServers
Monitoring
Hardware Monitoring and Alarming based on System Controller
Resource Monitoring (CPU/RAM Usage)
HA – Automated vServer Failover
OS Monitoring (Filesystem, Dataset, SMF Services, SWAP, Disk Paths)
Security Compliance and Hardening
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VDCF – High Availability
Different levels of High Availability / Failover
Manual Failover
Administrator using VDCF vserver/gdom commands
HA – Automated Failover
VDCF hamon automatically switches vServers if a Node fails
Cluster Support
vServer/LDoms are integrated into Oracle Solaris Cluster configuration
Monitoring and Failover is managed by the Cluster Software
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VDCF - Usage sample (2/3)
Where can I migrate my vServer (Zone) to?
-bash-4.1$ vserver -c show name=v0137 candidates
vServer Node cPool Patch-Level Comment
v0137 g0058 default 3.19.0.5.0 (U3.SRU19) Demo Zone1
Potential Nodes is candidate Disk access Net access Packages
g0054 (U3.SRU20) YES [upgrade] ok ok nok
g0081 (U3.SRU24) YES [upgrade] ok ok nok
s0024 (U3.SRU19) YES ok ok ok
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VDCF - Usage sample (3/3)
Is my environment consistent?
-bash-4.1$ cpool -c check name=default
ERROR: ComputePool default (Default ComputePool) is not consistent:
Disks not registered on Node <g0043>:
6001438012599B620001100001D30000
6001438012599B62000110000F040000
Systems with identical Package-Level / Kernel: 3.19.0.5.0 (U3.SRU19)
Nodes: g0058 s0024
Systems with identical Package-Level / Kernel: 3.20.0.5.0 (U3.SRU20)
Nodes: g0054
Systems with identical Package-Level / Kernel: 3.24.0.4.0 (U3.SRU24)
Nodes: g0055 g0081 g0043
Network type BACKUP missing for
Nodes: g0043
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VDCF - main benefits
Simplicity
Deploy and manage Virtual Solaris Environments without a deep Solaris
knowledge using only a handful of intuitive VDCF commands
Standardization
Zones and LDoms are deployed using supported Solaris technologies,
managed in a standard way and able to be deployed and available for
use in minutes rather than hours.
Availability / Recovery
VDCF allows manual or automatic control of server migration or fail-
over leading to improved options in availability, disaster recovery and
performance.
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Questions?
Product white papers and documentation online
https://www.jomasoft.com/vdcf/#js-docu
Try using the “Free Edition”
https://www.jomasoft.com/downloads