The dladm and zonecfg commands are the EVS clients. You can define the L2 network topologies through the evsadm command by using the elastic virtual switch, IPnet, and VPorts. You can use the dladm command to connect the VNICs to the L2 network topologies or the zonecfg command to connect the VNIC anet resource, thereby connecting the zones to the L2 network topologies.
When VNICs are created for the elastic virtual switch by using the dladm command or the zonecfg command, the configuration information for VNICs is retrieved from the EVS controller.
You can perform EVS operations on the EVS client after you install the service/network/evs package and specify the EVS controller by using the controller property with the evsadm set-prop command. The controller property is specified in the ssh://[user@]example-controller.com format. For more information, see Chapter 6, Administering Elastic Virtual Switches.