Includes Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Solaris 10 Patching, Ops Center Administration
New listings of Sun Learning Services instructor-led and live virtual class were recently noted. Some of these classes cover topics on Developing Web Applications using JSF technologies, Virtualization and Cloud Computing Concepts, Solaris 10 Patching Best Practices, and Sun Ops Center Administration.
An Examination of Datacenter Inefficiencies, TCO, and the Sun Ops Center
A Sun white paper discusses typical datacenter inefficiencies, commonly used strategies to resolve them, and how available technologies, like the Sun Ops Center, can lower costs over the lifecycle of a solution. “Sun Ops Center: Changing the Economics of Datacenter Operations” examines how the Sun Ops Center addresses monitoring frameworks, point-in-time provisioning - specifically OS provisioning tasks, software lifecycle management, and virtualization management - and how its approach is quite cost-efficient.
Simplify the Process of Deploying and Managing Large-scale Linux HPC Clusters
Anyone interested in an integrated open-source software solution for Linux-based high-performance computing (HPC) clusters running on Sun hardware may want to read the Sun BluePrints article “Using Sun Ops Center with Sun HPC Software, Linux 2.0.” Authors Mike Berg and Zhiqi Tao describe how to set up a Sun Ops Center server, provision the HPC cluster nodes (head node, Luster file system servers, and compute nodes), and configure system services.
Highlights on Ops Center Capabilities in Handling Zones
Sun Ops Center 2.5 offers enhanced support for virtualization solutions such as Solaris Zones. Owen Allen briefly highlights what users can do with Zones in the latest release of this comprehensive management software for physical and virtual systems. This includes managing, monitoring and working with both global and local Zones.
Screencast Offers Step-by-step Instructions
The Sun Ops Center 2.5 comes with the ability to patch Windows operating systems through Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager. A recent screencast highlighted by Owen Allen in the Ops Center blog takes viewers through the Windows update process, which involves configuring Ops Center to work with SCCM 2007 instance, discovering and managing the Windows systems and then using the Reports section for the actual Windows update.
