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"To my father, who died in 1997 and who taught me the right actions to be taken, even though he took the wrong ones. To my mother, who suffered a stroke last year and even without having a formal education, keeps making me believe that the coming day will always be better than today."

Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: ips and Boot Environments 7

Introduction 8

Determining the current package publisher 8

Listing and collecting the information and dependencies of a package 9

Installing a package, verifying its content, and fixing the package corruption 13

Managing the IPS history and freezing and uninstalling packages 17

Discovering the IPS Package Manager interface 20

Creating, activating, and destroying a boot environment 22

Listing and renaming a boot environment 24

Configuring an IPS local repository 26

Configuring a secondary IPS local repository 32

Publishing packages into a repository 34

Adding big applications into a repository 37

Creating your own package and publishing it 42

Managing an IPS publisher on Solaris 11 56

Pinning publishers 58

Changing the URI and enabling and disabling a publisher 59

Creating a mirror repository 61

Removing a repository and changing the search order 62

Listing and creating a boot environment 63

Mounting, unmounting, installing, and uninstalling a package

In an inactive boot environment 64

Activating a boot environment 66

Creating a boot environment from an existing one 68

References 71

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Chapter 2: zfs 73

Introduction 74

Creating ZFS storage pools and filesystems 74

Playing with ZFS faults and properties 79

Creating a ZFS snapshot and clone 85

Performing a backup in a ZFS filesystem 90

Handling logs and caches 96

Managing devices in storage pools 101

Configuring spare disks 108

Handling ZFS snapshots and clones 112

Playing with COMSTAR 116

Mirroring the root pool 131

ZFS shadowing 134

Configuring ZFS sharing with the SMB share 138

Setting and getting other ZFS properties 145

Playing with the ZFS swap 152

References 157

Chapter 3: Networking 159

Introduction 159

Playing with Reactive Network Configuration 160

Internet Protocol Multipathing 174

Setting the link aggregation 190

Configuring network bridging 198

Configuring link protection and the DNS Client service 207

Configuring the DHCP server 216

Configuring Integrated Load Balancer 221

References 234