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ES-421c - Sun Fire High-End Server Administration
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| The Sun Fire High-End Server (HES) Administration course provides students with the skill set necessary to identify the features and architecture specifics of the Sun Fire 15K/12K and Sun Fire E25K/E20K servers. These skills include performing configuration and platform administration methodologies supported by Sun on the Sun Fire HES; be familiar with and use troubleshooting tools and techniques available within the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) relevant to the Sun Fire high-end servers.
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| Lab Information |
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| The hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.
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| Who Can Benefit |
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All major audiences who must perform the roles of platform administrators, platform operators, platform service engineers, domain administrators, and domain configurators, including:
- Senior Sun Enterprise system administrators
- Senior service providers
- Operations managers
- Information technology planners
- Individuals responsible for supporting mainframe-style networked database servers
- Individuals responsible for configuring, upgrading, and supporting the Sun Fire HESs
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| Prerequisites |
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To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
- Provide administration support for the Solaris OS
- Understand the fundamentals of data storage administration
- Understand the fundamentals of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking and administration
- Understand general enterprise server concepts
- Configure a Sun Management Center (Sun MC) server and use Sun MC software to monitor the server
- Troubleshoot server and network system software and hardware
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| Skills Gained |
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Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the architecture, functional goals, and advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features of the Sun Fire 15K/12K server
- Perform pre-installation configuration verification
- Identify system components by location, layout, and function
- Perform configuration and platform administration methodologies supported by Sun on the Sun Fire high-end servers
- Be familiar with and use troubleshooting tools and techniques available within the Solaris OS
- Configure and manage the platform using System Management Services (SMS) utilities
- Initialize and configure the Solaris OS on a domain
- Define and edit nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters
- Create, manage, and delete multiple domains using hardware, system configuration, and available component lists (ACLs)
- Use OpenBoot programmable read-only memory (PROM) commands to gather system information and interpret the results
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| Related Courses |
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- Before: SA-399: Network Administration for the Solaris(TM) 9 Operating Environment
- Before: ES-415: Systems Management Using Sun Management Center
- Before: ES-420: Sun Fire Workgroup/Enterprise Server Administration
- After: ES-438: Sun Cluster 3.1 Advanced Administration
- After: SA-400: Solaris System Performance Management
- After: ES-415: Systems Management Using Sun Management Center
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| Course Content |
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Module 1 - Introducing the Sun Fire High-End Servers
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- List the functional goals of the Sun Fire high-end servers (Sun Fire HESs)
- Identify the different high-end servers
- Describe domains, board sets, and domain configuration units
- Describe the key features of the Sun Fire HES
- Describe the roles of the system controller and the System Management Services (SMS) software
- Describe some of the advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features of the Sun Fire HES
- Describe Capacity-on-Demand (COD)
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Module 2 - Exploring Sun Fire HES Architecture
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- Describe the Sun Fire HES architecture
- Identify field-replaceable units (FRUs) by location and function
- Power on and power off the Sun Fire HES
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Module 3 - Using the Sun Fire HES System Controller Networks and Software
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- Understand the management networks
- Identify the SC SMS platform management features
- Identify the SC's unique SMS startup scripts and their functions
- Identify the SC's unique SMS daemons and their functions
- Identify the Sun Fire HES SC's management software and applications
- Configure SMS on the system controller
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Module 4 - Configuring the Sun Fire HES Platform
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- Verify platform hardware resources
- Verify system environments
- Configure an available component list (ACL) for a domain
- Set the time-of-day (TOD) clock
- View system controller message logs
- Perform flash PROM image updates on various system components
- Save and restore the system controller configuration data
- Configure system controller failover
- Force system controller failover
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Module 5 - Configuring Sun Fire HES Domains
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- Describe the characteristics of a Sun Fire HES domain
- List the information required to create a new domain
- Create a new Sun Fire HES domain from the system controller
- Explain the structure of a Sun Fire HES OpenBoot PROM device tree
- Describe how to locate CPUs, memory banks, and I/O interface cards given their device tree address
- Prepare and initialize a new domain from the system controller
- Configure the Solaris OS after installing it on the Sun Fire HES domain
- Perform the default configuration for Network Time Protocol (NTP) in a domain
- Assess domain configuration using standard Solaris OS utilities
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Module 6 - Exploring Dynamic Reconfiguration
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- Describe the benefits of dynamic reconfiguration (DR)
- Discuss the restrictions and concerns that can occur with DR
- Analyze domain configuration status using DR
- Identify the steps required for removing system boards and I/O boards using DR
- Identify the steps required for installing system boards and I/O boards using DR
- Move system boards and I/O boards between domains using DR
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Module 7 - Exploring Sun Fire HES Capacity-On-Demand (COD) Version 2.0
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- Configure the platform for Capacity-on-Demand (COD) version 2.0 software
- Identify COD systems
- Identify COD part number and license requirements
- Manage COD right-to-use (RTU) licenses
- Identify COD SMS commands
- Install and remove a COD RTU license key
- Enable COD resources
- Monitor COD resources
- Service COD V2.0 FRUs
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Module 8 - Sun Fire HES System Management Through Sun MC 3.x Software
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- Explore the Sun Management Center (Sun MC) software on a Sun Fire HES
- Install Sun MC software on Sun Fire HES
- Identify Sun Fire HES administrative groups and security
- Identify Sun Fire HES topology objects
- Identify Sun Fire HES platform config reader modules
- Describe the use of Platform/Domain State Management (PDSM)
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Module 9 - Troubleshooting the Sun Fire HES
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- Understand how a Sun Fire HES fails and recovers
- Understand the role of the system controller in failure logging
- Describe the different types of failures
- Find where failure information is recorded
- Interpret failure information
- Interpret system configuration using the Sun Explorer utility
- Understand support information requirements
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