Showing posts with label sysadmin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sysadmin. Show all posts

Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (2nd Edition) Review

Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (2nd Edition)
Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)
I've read, re-read, and marked multiple pages of the book, and used it as a guide to monitor multiple systems. This is the best Solaris performance monitoring documention I've seen to dated. The specific utilities covered (vmstat, sar, iostat), give very useful clues about what to look for on systems. Coverage of some system utilties including sar, mpstat, and netstat were limited, and left me looking for missing chapters. Network I/O statistics and items to monitor were poorly covered, in favor of html java, and internet specific applications.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (2nd Edition)

9524J-6 "As practical as a Swiss Army knife for a power-hungry SysAdmin. For all the Sun gurus, veterans and newbies: This is for you. As a must-have in one's library, it'll be one of your most worn out references in your serious IT career. It is practical and very illustrative in its approach to solving sample problems." -Dexter D. Laggui Hailed in its first edition as an indispensable reference for system administrators, Sun Performance and Tuning has been revised and expanded to cover Solaris 2.6, the newest generation of SPARC hardware, and the latest Internet and Java server technologies. Featuring a quick guide to get you started, as well as detailed reference information, this book is indispensable both for developers who need to design for speed and administrators who need to manage system and network performance. Performance guru Adrian Cockcroft brings his unique expertise and structured approach to this complex and rapidly changing topic, providing detailed information on key aspects of performance management and system behavior that is not available anywhere else.Rich Pettit, author of the SE performance toolkit, describes the performance interfaces in Solaris and how to use this freely available toolkit to build your own customized performance-monitoring tools.Key topics covered include:*Performance Management and Measurement *TCP and Internet Server Tuning *JAVA Network Computer Server Sizing *SPARC System Architectures *Kernel Algorithms and Tuning *How to Build Your Own Performance Tools *Performance Rules and the virtual_adrian SE ToolTo get up to speed quickly on critical performance issues, this is the one book any Sun administrator, integrator or developer needs.

Buy NowGet 16% OFF

Click here for more information about Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (2nd Edition)

Read More...

Optimizing UNIX for Performance Review

Optimizing UNIX for Performance
Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)
Fantastic book on how to tune UNIX. It should be a required book in any UNIX administrators library. It covers all system aspects and UNIX flavors.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Optimizing UNIX for Performance

This is the most complete book available onperformance optimization—featuring coverage of UNIX, networking(TCP/IP), hardware architecture, and program optimization—allin one volume. Covers performance basics; understandingUNIX; BSD instrumentation; System V instrumentation; system tuning;optimizing user programs written in high-level languages; and makingaccurate measurements. Explains in detail the output from each command—alongwith "real-life"rules of thumb on what value is "good" and what is not. For System Administrators, applicationprogrammers, MIS managers, and general users of UNIX systems who areinterested in learning about and/or optimizing the performance oftheir UNIX system and networks.

Buy Now

Click here for more information about Optimizing UNIX for Performance

Read More...

Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials (Oracle Solaris System Administration Series) Review

Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials (Oracle Solaris System Administration Series)
Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)
At first glance one would think that this text was an extended introduction to the concepts of clusters as well as considerable discussion about interesting limits in latency and communcation speeds in inter-cluster connections. It completely lacks any real "essentials" that would aid the reader in the creation of a cluster, the administration or even something as "essential" as the cluster storage that is needed. This book may look like it provides the essential but it simply fails utterly in this respect. Does it provide information? Yes. If you would like to read about some of the things that were done at Sun Labs to make this happen and perhaps have long reads about the various ways that you *could* create a cluster then fine. However, don't buy this book thinking that there are any essentials. There are not. It does not even talk about simple things like the patches you need for Sun Cluster 3.2 on your Solaris 10 10/09 install.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials (Oracle Solaris System Administration Series)

Thousands of IT organizations have adopted clustering to improve the availability of mission-critical software services. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing environments, clustering is even more crucial.
Oracle® Solaris Cluster Essentials is a comprehensive, authoritative guide to the industry's most stable, robust clustering platform: Oracle Solaris Cluster. This book covers both Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in thorough detail, offering start-to-finish lifecycle guidance for planning, implementation, management, and troubleshooting.

Written by Oracle Solaris Cluster expert Tim Read, this book covers both high availability and disaster recovery features, and offers in-depth guidance for both Oracle and non-Oracle database environments. It also presents several example implementations that can be used to quickly construct effective proofs-of-concept.

Whether you're new to clustering or upgrading from older solutions, this book brings together all the information you'll need to maximize the value, reliability, and performance of any Oracle Solaris Cluster environment. You'll learn how to


Understand Oracle Solaris Cluster's product features and architecture, and their implications for design and performance
Establish requirements and design clustered systems that meet them
Master best practices for integrating clustering with virtualization technologies
Implement proven disaster recovery planning techniques
Efficiently maintain Oracle Solaris Cluster environments

Part of the Oracle Solaris System Administration Series, Oracle® Solaris Cluster Essentials combines a complete technology introduction and hands-on guide for every architect, administrator, and IT manager responsible for high availability and business continuity.


Buy NowGet 22% OFF

Click here for more information about Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials (Oracle Solaris System Administration Series)

Read More...