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Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - Exam 1Z0-821 Tutorials
Installing Oracle Solaris 11 / Planning the Installation
Subtitles of the Movie (Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - Exam 1Z0-821 / Installing Oracle Solaris 11 / Planning the Installation)
Before we actually insert the disk into the machine and start the boot process and install Solaris 11 there's a little bit of planning involved and this is actually one of your exam objectives. And as far as the exam is concerned and really as far as real life is concerned, planning involves several things and some of them we have listed on the screen. First of all we want to talk about what we're going to use the box for, whether it's a workstation or a server or even whether it's going to be a major server in a Cloud and handle Cloud computing type of services. And speaking of services that's another thing we want to look at too, is what kind of services are we going to run on this box because that may affect the type of installation we do. We also look at available hardware. For a workstation the hardware requirements are obviously a little bit less than they are for a server and for a server that's handling a large Cloud infrastructure, the hardware requirements are even more. Let's talk about our use first. Now we can install Solaris 11 and use it as a workstation or a server. In fact it's very easy to do both and we can use different installation methods based upon what we want to use it for. The other thing about the installation method is based upon our required services and applications, the Live CD versus the Text Installer CD has different software packages on it. So if you're just going to install a workstation for example the Live CD might be your better way to go because it contains most, if not all of the applications you need to start up right at the beginning using Solaris 11 as a workstation. And it's starts the services that you'll need, the typical services automatically. If you're going to install from a server of if you even have a workstation that does not have a high end graphics card then you might want to use the Text Installer instead because it does not use a GUI to install. It's a straight text installation, still fairly easy but it's only text. And at the end of the installation when it's up and running you only get a Shell prompt, you do not get a GUI. And for most servers that's all you need. And you'll find that you probably will be administering Solaris 11 at the Command prompt or Shell prompt a lot. The other thing about the Text Installer Disk is it has different software packages. It has the large server install package that you would use if you were installing server services. So that might be another consideration for if you're going to use it as a workstation or a server as to which type of installation method you're going to use. And we're going to look at both the Text Installer and the Live CD GUI Installers when we demonstrate to you how to install Solaris 11 coming up in a different session. Now as far as services goes, there's different services you're going to install on the box depending upon it's role. These could be network services, file sharing services for example, maybe authentication services, maybe it'll run a website or even a database. Typically most of these services will be installed on some type of a server platform, not typically a workstation platform although it's possible. You could have a small web server or small database server or even file services on a workstation. So this dictates what kind of installation you have too. And you probably need to role up front, what it's going to do and what type of services it's going to run before you install it. Now there's a lot of available hardware that you can install Solaris 11 on and some installation methods have different hardware requirements. For example it's typically a platform issue, Spark versus X86 as to which installation method you might use. For example the Live CD will only install on an X86 platform. The Text Installer will install on both X86 and Spark. So if you're going to use Spark, you typically want to use that Text Installer Disk. There is a special disk just for Spark anyway. When you download the IOS's for Solaris 11 you typically will have to choose between an X86 and a Spark platform. Now the available hardware that it runs on is actually very minimal and but it really depends on what type of box you're going to install, whether it's a server or a workstation. And we'll cover some of the hardware requirements a little bit later. Some of the hardware considerations that we will look at are memory of course, having a good bit of memory is important. Graphics card whether you're going to run a GUI installation or not and of course disk space. Some installation options require a certain amount of disk space allocated and partitioned. Some of the other considerations that you need to look at in planning are multi-booting, if you'll be booting it with a Windows system for example or another Linux system. Disk partitioning as I mentioned earlier, some disk partitions are required to be a certain size depending upon what kind of installation you're going to run and what platform you are going to run it on. There's also device drivers you need to look at. Different devices on the system you're going to be using, may be not supported by Solaris 11 right out of the box. So you may have to go get device drivers in advance that Solaris 11 supports and there's a wide variety of device drivers out there obviously. And you can get more information possibly on your particular device driver from the manufacturers site or even from the Solaris 11 site or different community sites. We haven't talked about everything there is to know when planning installation and some of these things we'll cover as we go through installing the system. We'll talk about a few more hardware requirements and so forth but the key is to make sure you know what you're installing and where you're installing and what you want out of the box when it's completed. Those are the key things in planning the installation.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - Exam 1Z0-821 |
| Author: | Bobby Rogers |
| SKU: | 34398 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-083-1 |
| Release Date: | 2012-12-24 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 92 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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