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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Master the Powerful Management Tools of Oracle Solaris 11.2 Govern a reliable and secure enterprise cloud computing infrastructure using the detailed information contained in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration Handbook offers end-to-end deployment, configuration, and management instruction. Find out how to install and update Oracle Solaris 11.2, migrate data and applications, build bare-metal and virtual networks, and tune performance. This comprehensive resource fully explains new features, including OpenStack cloud support, Unified Archive provisioning, and Oracle Solaris Zones. • Install Oracle Solaris 11.2 on SPARC and x86 systems • Virtualize and sandbox applications with Oracle Solaris Zones • Handle the complete software lifecycle to ensure systems are appropriately patched • Create both physical and virtual networks and control bandwidth • Implement reliable, secure infrastructure with automated compliance reporting • Install software from pre-configured Unified Archives or custom IPS repositories • Manage configuration on a large scale with SMF, Puppet, and RAD • Administer cloud-based compute, storage, and networking resources using OpenStack

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Harry Foxwell is a principal consultant at Oracles Public Sector division in the Washington, DC area, where he is responsible for solutions consulting and customer education on cloud computing, operating systems, and virtualization technologies. Harry has worked for Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle, since 1995. Prior to that, he worked as a Unix and Internet specialist for Digital Equipment Corporation; he has worked with Unix systems since 1979 and with Linux systems since 1995.Harry is coauthor of two Sun BluePrints: Slicing and Dicing Servers: A Guide to Virtualization and Containment Technologies (Sun BluePrints Online, October 2005), and The Sun BluePrints Guide to Solaris Containers: Virtualization in the Solaris Operating System (Sun BluePrints Online, October 2006). He coauthored the book Pro OpenSolaris (Apress, 2009), and blogs about cloud computing at http://http://blogs.oracle.com/drcloud/.He earned his doctorate in information technology in 2003 from George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), and has since taught graduate courses there in operating systems, computer architecture and security, and electronic commerce.Harry is a Vietnam veteran; he served as a platoon sergeant in the US Armys 1st Infantry Division in 1968-1969. He was awarded an Air Medal and a Bronze Star.He is also an amateur astronomer and contributing member of the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club. In addition, Harry is a USA Table Tennis (USATT) member and competitive table tennis player. He is also a US Soccer Federation (USSF) soccer referee.For additional information about Harry, please visit his home page: http://cs.gmu.edu/~hfoxwell. Glynn Foster is a Principal Product Manager for the Oracle Solaris core technologies engineering organization. Glynn is responsible for technology areas including OpenStack, deployment and lifecycle technologies including IPS, AI, Unified Archives, Puppet and RAD. Glynn lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

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