The HCL now lists virtualization platforms (such as VMware and
Sun VirtualBox) that are compatible with the OpenSolaris and
Solaris OS.

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This Solaris Cluster update includes Solaris Container Cluster support of Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel CRM 8, and single instance Oracle Database; Oracle ASM support with single instance Oracle Database in Solaris Containers; and many more features.
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/cluster/

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This quick start guide shows how to configure Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (release 2009.Q3) and Solaris Operating System hosts for Oracle RAC infrastructure deployment.
Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is a clustered database infrastructure that offers a highly scalable architecture and allows accessing the same database files from a shared storage. The Sun [...]

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First i create the zone, this is a very simple setup, event with a virtual network interface for the Zone, with this option the Zone can be acceded remotely.
Basicaly i use the command “zonecfg -z” to create the zone.  Previously i created the directory for the Zone, watch the video to see the whole picture [...]

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I downloaded the full image with wget. Then check the MD5 to prevent from burning some cds with a bad image:

[walter@serversolaris samba]$ md5sum sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd.iso
9df7fd02d82976fd3ec38a18d1a57335 sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd.iso

9df7fd02d82976fd3ec38a18d1a57335 sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd.iso
39b41be8fa041b3a0284922e0dd0976d sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a
547c3304d677440a07f7dd37d4a4a0e4 sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b
cbebf3ceb27646bbef1639574ef0cf30 sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b.zip
7dfedca8614f6b32c5614b282228cbd7 sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a.zip

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The Solaris software groups are collections of Solaris packages. Each software group includes support for different functions and hardware drivers.

For an initial installation, you select the software group to install, based on the functions that you want to perform on the system.
For an upgrade, you must upgrade to a software group that is installed on [...]

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Previously i covered some NFS here.
hosts.equiv(4)
Name | Description | Files | See Also | Warnings

Name
hosts.equiv, rhosts– trusted remote hosts and users

Description

If the form:

hostname

is used, then users from the named host are trusted. That is, they may access the system with the same user name as they have on the remote system. This form may be [...]

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DHCP Client Management
The Solaris DHCP client does not require management under normal system operation. It automatically starts when the system boots, renegotiates leases, and stops when the system shuts down. You cannot manually start and stop the dhcpagent daemon. However, you can use the ifconfig command as superuser on the client system to affect the [...]

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Solaris is usually used as a server operating system. Because of this, you want to make sure that you shut the system down as gracefully as possible to ensure there isn’t any data loss.
For every application that is installed on your server, you should make sure that you have the correct scripts in /etc/rc(x).d to [...]

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Removing repeated lines in a text, the strategy to remove repeated lines in a text is not very intuitive at the first, the operation is divided in parts:
1) convert if possible all the lines to lowercase.2) sort the lines so repeated lines are together.3) remove repeated lines.

$ cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt | tr [A-Z] [a-z] [...]

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