Creating and Administering Oracle^® Solaris 11.3 Boot Environments

Introduction to Managing Boot Environments

This document describes how to use the beadm command to manage boot environments. The beadm command is specifically designed to perform tasks on a boot environment structure including a root dataset and all the datasets nested under that root dataset. This chapter describes datasets and provides an overview of managing boot environments.

• About Boot Environments and Datasets

• Advantages to Maintaining Multiple Boot Environments

• About the beadm Command