This is a bit fiddly but I was in the following situation.

I had a bootable 4GB USB drive running Oracle Unbreakable Linux installation. It was installed on an LVM parition on the USB drive.

Now it came time to move this to an 8G drive which was achieved with the command

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb conv=notrunc

Where the original 4G drive was /dev/sda and the replacement 8G drive was /dev/sdb.

All good so far. Now however how do I extend the LVM parition to use this new space. Here is where some hoop jumping comes in.
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Below is a basic summary of the commands required to install a ntp daemon onto your server to keep track of time.

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If you want your daemons to start and stop with your Redhat system as it boots chkconfig is what you were looking for.
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I used to use some software called Ghost for imaging windows machines. Then it was brought by Norton and got a bit bloated.

Here is the latest contender which is free for personal use
http://www.xxclone.com/

Heaps more here with Kleo looking promising
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_cloning_software

This looks good too
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

A store of useful commands as I find them

displays the memory usage of running processes
prstat

List active processes (generally useful only with a grep)
ps -ef

Display physical memory size on server
prtconf|grep -i mem

Display swap size (do the math based on results of two commands)
pagesize
swap -l

Package installation
Get your version via ‘uname -a’ reference wikipedia if you dont know how to translate to Sun version.

Get packages from here

http://www.sunfreeware.com/

install with command
cd
gunzip packagename.gz
pkgadd -d packagename

The SMF or Service Management Facility handles the control of services within Solaris 10. Below are some common commands for a useful lookup.

The service FMRI is an identifier of each service and can be seen by running the list services commands below. The FMRI in all the commands below can be replaced with just the service name as long as there are no other services with similar names.

List all services
svcs

List all services including disabled services
svcs -a

View a service current status
svcs -H <service_FMRI>

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I made the mistake of converting a few drives to dynamic disks. Never again!

I consistently got online errors and other random corruptions.
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Below are some basics for installations of required packages using YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified)

These steps are primarily for Oracle Enterprise Linux but will be valid for most Linux systems.
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OEL comes with some great security features as default. However when your developing these can get in the way.

So here are a few tips to dropping OEL guard when it comes to security.

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A few useful commands to see if your kernel supports your network

lspci -knn
ifconfig -a

cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedoracore-linux-network-card-configuration/