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Training Course Summary:

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. Lab Information

The hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.

Pre-Requisites:

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 Li>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

Who Should Attend:

Students who can benefit from this course are 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

Training Course Overview/Content:

Module 1 - Introducing the Sun Fire High-End Servers


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)

Module 2 - Exploring Sun Fire HES Architecture


Describe the Sun Fire HES architecture
Identify field-replaceable units (FRUs) by location and function
Power on and power off the Sun Fire HES

Module 3 - Using the Sun Fire HES System Controller Networks and Software


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

Module 4 - Configuring the Sun Fire HES Platform


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

Module 5 - Configuring Sun Fire HES Domains


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
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

Module 6 - Exploring Dynamic Reconfiguration


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

Module 7 - Exploring Sun Fire HES Capacity-On-Demand (COD) Version 2.0


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

Module 8 - Sun Fire HES System Management Through Sun MC 3.x Software


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
Describe the use of Platform/Domain State Management (PDSM)

Module 9 - Troubleshooting the Sun Fire HES


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