Oracle Solaris White Papers

Overview

Extensive how-to documentation let you quickly make the most of the Solaris 10 OS.

Oracle Solaris Studio: Using the Tuned Libraries for Peak Application Performance

The Sun Performance Library delivers highly-tuned and parallelized scientific libraries for the newest Oracle Sun systems (SPARC and x86), enabling you to maximize application performance. This paper describes advanced features of the library for uniprocessor, multicore and distributed systems and includes code examples illustrating best practices.

Optimizing Applications with Oracle Solaris Studio Compilers and Tools

Oracle Solaris Studio delivers a fully integrated development platform for generating robust high-performance applications for the latest Oracle Sun systems (SPARC and x86). In order to take full advantage of the latest multicore systems, applications must be compiled for optimal performance and tuned to exploit the capabilities of the hardware. Learn how Oracle Solaris Studio helps you generate the highest performance applications for your target platform, from selecting the right compiler flags and optimization techniques to simplifying development with advanced multicore tools.

Oracle Solaris and Sun SPARC Systems—Integrated and Optimized for Enterprise Computing

This paper provides a technical overview on how Oracle Solaris and the SPARC processor have been highly optimized in a system-wide approach, delivering more scalable performance, advanced reliability, enhanced security, cost-effective virtualization, and tighter integration with Oracle solutions.

Moving to Oracle Solaris 10: an Overview

Provides an introduction to the technologies and approaches available when upgrading from earlier Solaris releases: upgrade options available, issues to consider, planning the upgrade, and strategies for implementation.

Moving to Oracle Solaris 10: Best Practices for the Datacenter

A technical look at the key steps to completing an Oracle Solaris upgrade project. Explains how to simplify the process, reduce risk, minimize disruption during the upgrade, and ensure success. Written primarily for system administrators who are planning to upgrade one or more systems from an older version of Solaris to Oracle Solaris 10.

How to Install the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System on x86 Systems

This white paper instructs users on how to install Oracle Solaris 10 on an Oracle supported x86 system (including the family of 32-bit x86 systems as well as 64-bit AMD64 and Intel 64 systems). It is assumed that user is installing Oracle Solaris 10 5/09.

Configuring Oracle Solaris ZFS for an Oracle Database

This document provides guidance on how to economically deploy an Oracle database on Oracle Solaris ZFS to maximize data integrity and performance. We start with a brief planning section and follow with step-by-step instructions for configuring and maintaining Oracle Solaris ZFS file systems for an Oracle database.

Oracle Solaris DTrace

How to use Oracle Solaris DTrace from Oracle Solaris and OpenSolaris System

Helps a new user learn how to use Oracle Solaris DTrace for gathering and using system and application information. Construct scripts to gather useful information about running applications that can be used to improve the performance on Oracle Solaris and OpenSolaris.

How to Move an Oracle Solaris Container

Instructs users, system administrators, and developers who have experience with Oracle Solaris 10 on proper use of new features which allow an Oracle Solaris 10 container to be moved from one computer to another.The paper discusses the need and three examples of the use of this functionality.

Oracle Solaris Cluster

How to Install and Configure a Two-Node Cluster

Intended to help a new or experienced Oracle Solaris user quickly and easily install and configure Oracle Solaris Cluster software for two nodes, including the configuration of a quorum device.

How to Configure Oracle VM Server for SPARC Guest Domains as Oracle Solaris Cluster Nodes

Helps a new or experienced Oracle Solaris user quickly and easily install and configure Oracle Solaris Cluster software for two nodes that are Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domains.

Total Information Protection: Using Oracle Solaris to Address Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance

This white paper presents security features of Oracle Solaris 10 and related technologies and describes how organizations can use them in complying with the payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade

How to Upgrade and Patch with Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade

This white paper demonstrates the use of Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade, a powerful tool for managing change, risk, and system availability on Oracle Solaris systems.

Service Management Facility

Management of Systems and Services Made Simple with the Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility

Instructs system administrators unfamiliar with the Oracle Solaris 10 OS on how to use the Service Management Facility (SMF) to monitor and manage a Oracle Solaris 10 system.

SMF Manifest

How to Create an Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility Manifest

Explains how SMF service manifests are used to create automatic recovery services for any application, and how to develop a service manifest for an application.

Oracle Solaris ZFS

How to Manage Systems with Oracle Solaris ZFS in Oracle Solaris Containers

Highlights the capabilities of Oracle Solaris ZFS when coupled with Oracle Solaris Containers. After reading this guide, a user will have an understanding of how to delegate an Oracle Solaris ZFS file system to a container and to manage it from within the Oracle Solaris Container.

Working with Oracle Solaris ZFS Snapshots

This guide is intended to show a new user the capabilities of the Oracle Solaris ZFS snapshots feature. It describes the steps necessary to set up an Oracle Solaris ZFS filesystem and the use of snapshots including how to create them, use them for backup and restore purposes, and how to migrate them between systems. After reading this guide, the user will have a basic understanding of how snapshots can be integrated into system administration procedures.

Deploying Web 2.0 Applications on Oracle Servers and the OpenSolaris Operating System
This white paper describes a reasonably sized, scalable Web 2.0 deployment and how Olio (Web 2.0 toolkit for evaluating the suitability, functionality, and performance of Web technologies) helps validate and tune the solution, resulting in several best practices for deployment.

How to Consolidate Servers and Applications with Oracle Solaris
Instructs users, system administrators, and developers unfamiliar with Oracle Solaris 10 on how to consolidate applications onto a single server using Oracle Solaris Containers technology.

Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases in Oracle Solaris Containers
This paper provides an overview of Oracle Solaris Containers, including Oracle Solaris Zones and the Solaris Resource Manager. This also describes the licensing model supported by Oracle and provides directions for creating and configuring a non-global zone in an Oracle Solaris Container that is appropriate for deploying an Oracle database.

Oracle Solaris Operating System: Optimized for Sun x86 Systems in the Enterprise
This document is intended as a technical guide for developers and system administrators that want to understand the precise details of how Oracle Solaris and the Intel Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series can improve your application solution environment.

Parallel Programming with Oracle Developer Tools Whitepaper
This paper targets developers interested to learn more about parallel programming and covers everything needed to get started. A very practical and pragmatic approach has been chosen, including many code examples. After having introduced and discussed the major concepts, it zooms in on various parallel programming models, with an emphasis on OpenMP and MPI.

How to Eliminate Web Page Hijacking Using Oracle Solaris Security
Instructs Oracle Solaris system administrators and security professionals in the process of securing common Web servers. By the end of the paper, an example configuration is created that allows Web content to be maintained securely by content owners, while the Web server itself runs with a minimized set of privileges in its own secured container.