illumos and SmartOS Basics
This page lists some resources for understanding and using SmartOS in general.
Books¶
- The
OpenSolaris Bible
Relevant chapters are:
- Ch 7 Disks, Local File Systems, and the Volume Manager (except for the volume manager)
- Ch 8 ZFS
- Ch 9 Networking
- Ch 10 Network File Systems and Directory Services
- Ch 11 Security
- Ch 12 Fault Management
- Ch 13 Service Management
- Ch 14 Monitoring and Observability (except SNMP)
- Ch 15 DTrace
- Ch 17 Virtualization (except xVM, does not cover kvm/bhyve)
- Ch 18 Resource Management
- Ch 19 Zones (except ipkg; lx content is entirely out of date)
Basic System Administration¶
- Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials
- Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials (Oracle Solaris System Administration Series)
- Solaris 10 ZFS Essentials
- Solaris 10 Security Essentials
Performance, Profiling, and Programming¶
- DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD (Oracle Solaris Series)
- Solaris™ Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris
- Solaris Application Programming
Kernel¶
General¶
- Glossary
- Illumos Meetup June 15, 2011, Companies and individuals involved in the development of the Illumos operating system