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The following is my selection of the best books I've found on Solaris for each topic. If you have any suggestions or see a subject missing, please send a message to Dan Anderson.


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[Book] Books for Solaris Users

Click here to order [Click here to order] OpenSolaris Bible (2009) by Solter, Jelinek, & Miner.

Excellent overall book, including Virtualization, ZFS, Dtrace, and basic administration.




[Book] Beginning / Intermediate Sys Admin Books

Click here to order [Click here to order] Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials (2009) by Jain, Davenport, Bustos, & Sun engineers.

I haven't seen a review copy, but the authors, Sun employees, know their stuff.


Click here to order [Click here to order] Solaris Security Essentials (2009) by Veach & and Sun engineers

Good book for security, including roles, encryption, authentication, and filesys tem and network security.


Click here to order [Click here to order] Pro OpenSolaris (2009) by Foxwell & Tran

Another OpenSolaris book—haven't seen it yet.



[Book] Advanced Sys Admin Books

[Click here to order] Solaris Internals 2d ed. (2006) by McDougall & Mauro

Detailed, yet very readable book on the Solaris kernel. Useful for all who want to understand Solaris better, and who want to exploit its features. Chapters on processes, threads, scheduling, memory management, files, I/O, kernel services, interrupts, scheduling, IPC, Dtrace, and kernel tunables. Updated for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.


Click here to order Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (1998) by Cockcroft & Pettit, Sun Microsystems

No Intel-specific information, but this is the best Solaris or UNIX book on performance measurement and tuning I've seen. The book is well illustrated and has specific examples on several monitoring utilities. Also covers TCP/IP networking.


Click here to order Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers (1997) by Wong

Excellent book for sizing Solaris Servers. Has detailed examples and tips for NFS, DBMS, & Internet servers, Timeshare systems; chapgers on storage, system architecture, and benchmarks. Book is becomming dated for latest Sun hardware, but concepts still apply. May be a little too technical for beginners.



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