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Updated: December 2018

Transitioning From Oracle^® Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11.3

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Chapter 1 About Transitioning From Oracle Solaris 10 to an Oracle Solaris 11 Release

Chapter 2 Transitioning to an Oracle Solaris 11 Installation Method

Chapter 3 Managing Devices

Chapter 4 Managing Storage Features

Chapter 5 Managing File Systems

Chapter 6 Managing Software and Boot Environments

Software Package Changes

Oracle Solaris 10 SVR4 and IPS Package Comparison

IPS Installation Package Groups

Displaying Information About Software Packages

Updating the Software on an Oracle Solaris System

Installing Maintenance Updates on an Oracle Solaris 11 System

Managing Boot Environments

Chapter 7 Managing Network Configuration

Chapter 8 Managing System Configuration

Chapter 9 Managing Security

Chapter 10 Managing Virtualization Features

Chapter 11 Managing User Accounts and User Environments

Chapter 12 Managing the Oracle Solaris 11 Desktop

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Managing Boot Environments

Boot environments (BEs) are bootable instances of an image. In Oracle Solaris 11, you use the pkg update command to update a BE and the beadm command to create, list, rename, activate, and remove BEs.

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