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Packaging
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RPM - A package manager that can be used to install, update,
uninstall, and query for packages.
Commands:rpm, rpmdb, and
rpmsign
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Image Packaging System (IPS) – Command line
pkg and graphical Package Manager allows you
to perform package operations such as install, update, uninstall,
and query.
Commands: pkg, pkgsend,
pkgrecv, pkgsign,
pkgdiff, pkgfmt,
pkgmogrify, and
pkgrepo
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Services
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systemd – The systemd
system with service manager controls the startup and shutdown of
system services.
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Service Management Framework (SMF) – A framework that
manages system and application services. SMF improves the
availability of a system by ensuring that essential system and
application services run continuously even during hardware or
software failures.
Commands: svcadm, svccfg,
and svcprop
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Network Virtualization
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RHEL provides network virtualization support in KVM.
Commands: ip, brctl, and
tunctl
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Network virtualization is administered at the datalink level. You
can create VNICs that act like physical NICs. Virtual switches are
automatically created to route the network traffic to the physical
NIC device.
Commands: dladm, flowadm,
dlstat, flowstat,
evsadm, and evsstat
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Virtualization
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KVM – A full virtualization solution on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
Commands:virsh, virt-clone,
virt-convert, virt-image,
virt-install, virt-viewer,
virt-what, and
virt-xml-validate
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Oracle Solaris Zones – Provide native low-overhead OS
virtualization with high application isolation and resource
management.
Commands: zoneadm, zonecfg,
zonestat, zonename, and
zone2pvhck
Oracle Solaris also supports Oracle VM Server for SPARC platform
and Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones.
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File Systems
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Ext4, XFS, LVM, btrfs, and UFS
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Oracle Solaris ZFS – Default file system on Oracle Solaris 11.
Maximum file size of 16 EB, maximum volume size of 16 EB.
Oracle Solaris ZFS has integrated data services such as snapshot and
cloning, deduplication, encryption, compression, shadow migration,
and RAID.
Commands: zfs and
zpool
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Encryption
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Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) – RHEL supports LUKS for file
system encryption. LUKS protects data in a partition that has been
encrypted only when the system has been turned off.
Command: cryptsetup
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ZFS – Supports full encryption of datasets during
creation.
Command: zfs
Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework – Provides a common
store of algorithms and PKCS #11 libraries to handle cryptographic
requirements.
Commands: cryptoadm and
pktool
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Monitoring
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SystemTap – Provides dynamic instrumentation of RHEL.
Commands: stap, staprun,
stap-report, stapsh,
stap-merge, and
stap-prep
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DTrace – A comprehensive dynamic tracing facility that can
be used by administrators and developers on live production systems
to examine the behavior of both user programs and the operating
system itself.
Command: dtrace
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