Sysadmin
What's new ?
What would you get (only) here ?
New ways of doing the same thing.
New things available for the sysadministrator.
Maintaining local mirrors
syncing content with the main server
internal repositories for custom applications
Wide scale deployment
- Kickstart deployment equivalent
- central management of servers
- OS Patches
Managing your systems
- Standards followed
DMTF (WS Management, CIM)
- Known opensource tools such as puppet, cactii, nagios
Docs should be cross referenced where possible:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/
does not have a link to the StorageAdmin wiki Library
http://wikis.sun.com/display/StorageAdmin/Library
- Bigadmin is good, incidentally
It contains a link to the StorageAdmin Wiki, but the Storage Admin
Wiki does not have a link to the StorageAdmin Library
StorageAdmin itself is a great site (saw it just today morning)
Case Studies:
- Something about new technologies.
- Equivalents in Solaris
- Cool stuff that's nowhere else.
e.g. Xen + ZFS + WindowsXP
Xen + ZFS + pNFS
Use cases needed
- Deployment scenarios
web server, mail server, Tomcat hosting, Sharing files for the office
- Linux sysadmin equivalents in Solaris
- Deployment
- Redhat/Ubuntu/kickstart eqivalents in Solaris
