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Solaris, Oracle, and Red Hat Linux |
Oracle Strategic Roadmap |
Monitoring and Evaluating Performance: UNIX- and Linux-variant Operating Systems
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Oracle Acquisition of Sun Microsystems In 2009, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems hardware and software: Solaris operating system, MySQL database, Java programming language, and SPARC hardware - servers and storage systems. The United States Justice Department approved the acquisition. The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, approval was predicated upon the condition that Oracle would make significant commitments to support the open source code and extend commercial licenses. Other countries, such as China and Russia, will grant and enforce access to their markets with different geo-political stipulations. The stated objective of Oracle Corporation is to be an end-to-end service provider for corporate and public sector clients. Towards that end, Oracle has been emphasizing that its software will simplify the development, management, and monitoring of SOA: Service Oriented Architecture while delivering performance and scalability. SYS-ED staff and CETi Technology Partners have been evaluating benchmarks in the public domain and assessing Oracle Corporation's efforts to make its existing product line work with: 1- open source Solaris, MYSQL, and Java 2-
commercial WebLogic and Tangosol software 3- the longstanding Oracle product line.
1 Sun Microsystems strategy has been to position Solaris as a base operating system platform and front end for scalable databases, web servers, middleware, and virtual machines to IBM mainframe operating systems - z/OS, z/VSE, and z/VM. To a lesser extent Solaris has a role in the development and distribution of Service Oriented Architecture. Solaris, IBM AIX, and HP-UX servers, represent approximately 10% of the installed base of server operating systems and have high reliability and service ratings among mainframe distributions. It serves as an open source alternative to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. Oracle's stated objective with the Tangosol software is to provide value-based application performance to distributed and frequently accessed data. Tangosol Data Grid is an enabler for the use of XPT: Extreme Transaction Processing in financial services, telecommunications, travel, and logistics industries.
Industry Standard Courses
how IPsec services can be used in combination with scalable data services to mitigate security constrained configurations. managed failover of IPsec sessions for making node failure transparent to users with no new key negotiations after failover. how in telecommunication environments the SCTP protocol can be used on the public network in combination with scalable data services. the round-robin load-balancing scheme which remains effective as the number of requests and clients scales to a higher volume. that cluster nodes in a scalable data service can initiate connections to a server outside of the cluster using the virtual IP address as the source IP address. Migrating Oracle Databases from SPARC-based Systems to PowerEdge R9000 CETi Technology Partners
have been evaluating the joint impact of the upgrade and migration of the Oracle database to an Intel platform. Existing Platform/Operating System: SPARC / Solaris 9 Software Version: Upgrade Platform/Operating System: Benchmarks were based upon the installation of Solaris 10 and Oracle 10g R2 on the PowerEdge R900 and migrating user databases from the Sun Fire
V440 to the PowerEdge R900. The
findings were that the PowerEdge R900 hardware had delivered in the
range of 10 times the performance of the Sun Fire V440.
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SYS-ED
Teaching Experience: Solaris and Multi-platform When it comes to unbiased
knowledge transfer and the ability to
teach and explain the
undocumented nuances and workarounds on the Solaris operating system that don’t always work as advertised, there is a viable alternative to having Solaris training with Oracle Corporation. SYS-ED’s Solaris courses incorporate a variety of
real-world implementations of the different releases of Solaris UNIX which highlight both the new and transitional featureset. Our consultancy derived courses reflect a specialized expertise in system administration, performance design, and scripting for Fortune 1000 companies, government municipalities, and healthcare providers.
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State of the Market -
Longstanding Consultancy Experience
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SYS-ED’s UNIX (not just Solaris) courseware and training aids are highly respected. The Computer Education Techniques knowledge base is a service for answering questions, inclusive of the research and validation of the accuracy of information in the public domain. Citation of source documentation and examples are used to provide answers to the questions. Content is selectively added to SYS-ED course hand-outs and training aids. SYS-ED's long-term strategy is to have our courseware reviewed and recognized as a NRV: Nationally Recognized Vendor.
| UNIX Essentials Featuring Solaris 10 |
Solaris Fundamentals |
Solaris System Administration |
Solaris 10 - New Features |
| Table of Contents | Table of Contents | Table of Contents | Table of Contents |
| Copyright Acknowledgement | Copyright Acknowledgement | Copyright Acknowledgement | Copyright Acknowledgement |
| Performance Objectives | Performance Objectives | Performance Objectives | Performance Objectives |
| Chapter 1 | Chapter 1 | Chapter 1 | Chapter 1 |
| Chapter 2 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 2 |
| Glossary | Glossary | Glossary | Glossary |
| Reference Card | Reference Card | Reference Card | Reference Card |
| Index | Index | Index | Index |
| Oracle Database Administration | Oracle Forms Developer | Oracle JDeveloper |
| Table of Contents | Table of Contents | Table of Contents |
| Copyright Acknowledgement | Copyright Acknowledgement | Copyright Acknowledgement |
| Performance Objectives | Performance Objectives | Performance Objectives |
| Chapter 1 | Chapter 1 | Chapter 1 |
| Chapter 2 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 2 |
| Index | Index | Index |
| Oracle PL/SQL Programming | Oracle PL/SQL Programming - Advanced | Oracle Application Development and Tuning |
| Table of Contents | Table of Contents | Table of Contents |
| Copyright Acknowledgement | Copyright Acknowledgement | Copyright Acknowledgement |
| Performance Objectives | Performance Objectives | Performance Objectives |
| Chapter 1 | Chapter 1 | Chapter 1 |
| Chapter 2 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 2 |
| Index | Index | Index |
SYS-ED’s Solaris courses and training programs reflect 30 years of consultancy and multiplatform experience with UNIX-variants and FOSS: Free open source and commercial software.2
| 3- Review our Student Course Evaluations |
Few software or consulting firms, let alone training companies, have the multidisciplinary expertise that SYS-ED has with Solaris, Oracle database platform, WebSphere MQ middleware, and DB2 UDB database.
Student Course Evaluations - Solaris and Linux
| Solaris Administration | Solaris System Administration | Solaris 10 - System Administration | UNIX Shell Programming | Linux Fundamentals and Support |
Multi-platform Experience - IT Training
| Oracle Development Platform - Public Sector Experience | WebSphere MQ - Recognized Experts | IBM DB2 UDB - Public Sector Experience | IBM Mainframe - Public Sector Experience | DB2 - Recognized Experts |
Solaris and Red Hat Linux Training Programs
SYS-ED's training programs utilize the full complement of delivery medium; distance-learning, web-based, and technology driven classrooms. As part of conducting a training program, courseware is organized for utilization in courseware as a learning center. In order to accommodate employee workloads and staff in remote geographic locations, component courses can be scheduled over non-consecutive weeks utilizing a combination of classroom training and distance-learning. At the client's discretion, checklist of completed tasks, validation assessment, and a final examination can be utilized.
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| Solaris 10: New Features - For IT personnel with UNIX experience. | 5 days |
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| Red Hat Linux Essentials - For IT personnel without Linux experience. | 5 days | |||||||||
Emerging Trend: Oracle Solaris to Red Hat Linux
In order to reduce costs in the datacenter, IT management is moving to commodity x86-based servers to replace legacy RISC servers. There can be advantages in migrating from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux including a reduction in TCO: Total Cost of Ownership and increased deployment options. Red Hat has reported that IBM has migrated 700 organizations from Solaris to Red Hat Linux. 3
CETi Technology Partners have been evaluating the IBM Migration Factory and white papers used in moving enterprises from Oracle/Sun to IBM and Linux: server assessments, discovery tools, and workload optimization - hardware, software, and processes.
The emerging trends that have been reported include:
Replacing RISC machines running Solaris and other UNIX distributions to x86-based blade servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Installing Red HAT Enterprise Linux to on HP Proliant servers.
Replacing and migrating traditional UNIX workloads from Solaris to Linux for reduced operating costs and flexibility.
Migrating Solaris workloads to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: web server farms, web applications/portals, ERP systems, database applications, and homegrown applications.
Functional Equivalence: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris
| Function | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Solaris Operating System |
| Package Management | RPM Package Manager: Software bundled into installable RPM packages that help automate software management. | SVR4 package |
| Auto Installer | Kickstart | JumpStart |
| Logical Volume Manager | LVM, LVM2, LVM2 supports snapshot capability | Solaris Volume Manager |
| Software Updates | Software Updater | Solaris 10 Update Manager |
| Software Update Management | Red Hat Network and Red Hat Network Satellite | Sun Connection / Oracle Enterprise xVM Operations Center for managing updates |
| Default GUI | GNOME | GNOME |
| Free Software Package Repository | EPL | Sun Freeware and OpenSolaris Contrib pkg repository. |
| Init Scripts | System V-style init scripts for starting, stopping, checking standalone services, etc. | Pre Solaris 9 and Solaris legacy services. |
| General Administration Tools | Vmstat, top, iostat, netstat | vmstat, top, iostat, netstat |
| Military-grade Security | SELinux | EAL Common Criteria Certified | Trusted Solaris |
| Native Multipathing | Included | Included |
| Dynamic Tracing | System Tap | DTrace |
| Resource Management | Resource Management | Resource Manager |
| High Availability | High Availability Add-on | Solaris Cluster |
| File Systems | ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, support for encrypted file systems. | The ext4 is similar to ZFS; the ext4 is scalable to unlimited sub directions with a file system size of EB. |
| Development Tools 4 | A recompile can be performed using GNU tools on SPARC and then moved to Linux. There may be issues with the API when moving to Linux. |
GNU Tools |
| Networking | IPV4 and IPV6 support | IPV4 and IPV6 support |
| Integrated Firewall | Netfilter | IPFilter |
| Cluster File System | GFS2 in Resilient Storage Add-on | CFS in Solaris Cluster |
Red Hat Linux Enterprise - Commentary
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is open source software designed for large data centers and virtualization. Each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is supported for up to 10 years; it is acknowledged to be a stable platform for enterprise applications. With open source software, organizational enterprise retains the ability to control software licensing costs by combining commercial distributions with an affiliated non commercial software distribution. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the typical choice would be either Fedora Core deployments or CentOS deployments. Oracle Corporation - Solaris 11 contains a number of significant changes, including a new installer that replaces JumpStart, new packaging, and a requirement to use the ZFS: Zetabye file system for root. Since the changes in Solaris 11 impact system management functionality, the impact on operational procedures can be substantial. And makes it a convenient juncture to evaluate whether to upgrade Solaris or consider an alternative operating system.
The Oracle business model is based on licenses, support, and maintenance agreements. For enterprises currently utilizing Oracle SPARC hardware and the Solaris operating system, there are reasons to consider migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Oracle’s integrated hardware and software provide the greatest benefit when running Oracle software products and the requirement is to have a single point of purchase and support. However, Oracle customers in the past have expressed issues relating to indiscriminate costs increases and possible limitations on deployment options. There continues to be a wariness not to be locked into a single vendor and the Oracle roadmap.
Selecting an operating system for an information technology infrastructure has long-term consequences. The selection process must take into account not only the featureset of the current operating system, but the ability for the operating system to enable and support business requirements. Reduced total cost of ownership, flexibility, scalability, and uncertainty regarding Oracle Corporation’s long term commitment to the SPARC architecture and the Solaris operating system are all reasons for migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Contact SYS-ED
So by all means if your organization has a requirement for Solaris training, contact Oracle University and review their content, performance objectives, and interview their instructor. And then visit www.unixtrainingbysysed.us and compare the quality and value of the Solaris training that SYS-ED offers.
The value added component to our Solaris training is the technology updates and service provided through specialized and software specific websites.
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SYS-ED's websites compile, organize, and present software specific and established operational categorizations of information technology. They provide a framework for assessing knowledge transfer in a variety of delivery formats: web-based training, classroom instruction, technology updates, courseware, training aids, learning paths, and validation assessment. |
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Footnote 1:
Sources Transaction Processing Performance Council,
www.tpc.org and
www.oracle.com/sunoraclefaster.
Footnote 2:
SYS-ED’s core UNIX and Linux curriculum have been submitted to the New York State Department of Education - Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision for technical review and licensing.
Footnote 3:
White Paper: Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Migrate from Solaris with Confidence.
http://
www.redhat.com/migrate/Solaris_to_Linux.
Footnote 4:
Functional Comparison Red Hat Linux Enterprise and Solaris is based upon information available at
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com.
