UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

My name is Jimmy. My company support a client that using Sun Microsystems and Oracle. I'm totally zero knowledge about it. Only know installation a bit in Debian Linux and some commands. Do anyone here can help me at least some idea how to operate the Sun Microsystems. Please correct me if i'm wrong for my understanding sun solaris is an unix platform. There are Sunfire v3800 ,Sunfire V3910 and Sun fire 280R backup system running on Veritas running in the environment. Is anybody and give me some picture how are this systems work together. Please give some advice what knowledge should basically should I have to operate or administrator for this kind of environment. Thank for your kindness comment.

hire someone who knew how to handle this stuff... and this is a serious advice!

You must be kidding my friend. Company hired use to learn to handle it and we do got the maintenance contract with Sun Distributor. How can hire some else to handle the stuff then I will getting fired.

I don't think he's kidding, given that he said it's serious advice. If you start playing around on a live system without knowing anything about it, there are 2 possible outcomes:And give Murphys Law I'm willing to bet the second will occur sooner or later.

From personal experience, I can say that most administrators didn't learn most of their stuff from books or courses, but from real life experience, and that would probably take time and resources that probably neither your client nor your company is willing to put up for this contract.

Thanks for your advice. My company did setup a simulate system like my client place but I got no knowledge base how the system work. May be is best that you can give me some guide where can I find out some stuff that may be I can learn from scratch. Mostly like how to install the Sun solaris and oracle. My background knowledge is all on Windows platform.

If you really want to learn Solaris and Oracle you can do this:With careful planning, you might be able to properly go through this stuff in 6 to 8 months, after which you'd probably be at the level of a Junior Administrator/DBA.

That will be a good idea but doea OpenSolaris and Oracle support any kind of hardware and what is the requirement. I hope you not try to tell me to format or do it in my working place cause the testing server got database inside for testing not suit to do formatting or installation. If got more manual guide will be more convenient for me to learn. I hope that I'm not that trouble you much.