Boot Disk Management: A Guide for the Solaris Operating Environment [Paperback]

John S. Howard (Author), David Deeths (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130621536 | ISBN-13: 978-0130621535 | Publication Date: January 6, 2002 | Edition: 1

Boot Disk Management examines the life cycle of the Solaris Operating Environment and its book disk. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the Solaris OE boot disk are presented in detail. Additionally, this book provides recommendations for installing the solaris OE, as well as recommendations for managing Solaris OE upgrades with Live Upgrade.

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From the Back Cover

• Enhance system reliability with reference configurations
• Effectively use Solstice DiskSuite or VERITAS Volume Manager to manage your boot disk
• Speed system recovery operations

Boot Disk Management examines the life cycle of the Solaris Operating Environment (OE) and its boot disk. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the Solaris OE boot disk are presented in detail. Additionally, this book provides recommendations for installing the Solaris OE, as well as recommendations for managing Solaris OE upgrades with Live Upgrade.

This book also provides best practices for selecting a logical volume manager and configuring Solstice DiskSuite (also known as Solaris Volume Manager) or VERITAS Volume Manager to manage the Solaris OE boot disk. The reference configurations presented demonstrate how these recommendations can be used to help improve system reliability, serviceability, and recovery time.

About the Author

JOHN S. HOWARD is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems working in the Enterprise Engineering group. He has over 19 years' experience in software engineering and systems administration on a diverse array of platforms. John is currently working on projects for enhancing system availability and serviceability.

DAVID DEETHS has worked in Sun's Enterprise Engineering group for four years. His work has focused primarily on clusters and high-availability systems. He is coauthor of the Sun BluePrint book The Sun Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster 2.2 and has published numerous online articles on a variety of topics. David holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (January 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130621536
• ISBN-13: 978-0130621535
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,385,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > Solaris

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on Solaris Boot Disk Management, February 4, 2002

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Gordon (Winnipeg, MB, CAN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boot Disk Management: A Guide for the Solaris Operating Environment (Paperback)

Summary

This is a great book for Solaris system administrators or planners. This book offers practical planning advice as well as real world demonstrations on how to configure and maintain Solaris boot disks that ensure minimal outage and recovery effort when a disk fails or when the boot disk is corrupted. This book covers using the VERITAS Volume Manager, Sun Solstice DiskSuite Software and the Sun Live Upgrade software to configure and maintain boot disks.

Details

The first 3 chapters discuss the issues involved in choosing and building a Solaris boot disk. Boot disk partitioning is covered in detail. Swap device recommendations are presented. Upgrading Solaris installations using Live Upgrade is demonstrated. Basic concepts dealing with patches, firmware upgrades and Open Boot Prom maintenance are also covered.

Chapter 4 deals with various configuration scenarios for boot disks. It clearly discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each scenario from a technical and budgeting perspective. Reference configurations are documented, which offers a great framework for customization.

The rest of this book focuses on using VERTIAS Volume Manager and Sun Solstice DiskSuite Software to build robust boot disks environments. Each logical volume manager is given 2 chapters of coverage on the configuration and maintenance of a Solaris boot disk environment. Commands to build the boot disk environments are demonstrated using each LVM.

This book also discusses documentation procedures, boot disk disaster recovery procedures and general boot disk backup procedures. Technical, budgeting and procedural perspectives are used to examine these topics.

I think this is a great book for Solaris administrators of all technical levels. It is also a great reference for Solaris planners to use when building robust Solaris systems.

This book is well worth the money. Any serious Solaris administrator or planner should buy this book and read it.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where is it?????????????, August 1, 2005

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This review is from: Boot Disk Management: A Guide for the Solaris Operating Environment (Paperback)

I have no idea how the book is because after a month I still haven't recieved it.