Chapter 1, IPS and Boot Environments, covers all aspects from IPS and boot environment administration, where it is explained how to administer packages, configure IP repositories, and create your own packages. Additionally, this chapter also discuss BE administration and its associated operations.

Chapter 2, ZFS, explains the outstanding world of ZFS. This chapter focuses on ZFS pool and filesystem administration as well as how to handle snapshots, clones, and backups. Moreover, it will include a discussion on using ZFS shadow, ZFS sharing with SMB shares, and logs. Finally, it will provide a good explanation on how to mirror the root pool and how to play with ZFS swap.

Chapter 3, Networking, takes you through the reactive network configuration, link aggregation setup, and IPMP administration. Other complex topics such as network bridging, link protection, and Integrated Load Balancer will be explained and fully demonstrated.

Chapter 4, Zones, shows us how to administer a virtual network and deploy the resource manager on a zone. Complementary and interesting topics such as flow control and zone migration will be also discussed.

Chapter 5, Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services, helps you to understand all SMF operations and to review the basic concepts about how to administer a service. Furthermore, this chapter explains and shows you step-by-step recipes to create SMF services, handle manifests and profiles, administer network services, and troubleshoot Oracle Solaris 11 services.

Chapter 6, Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server, takes you through an end-to-end Automated Installer (AI) configuration recipe and provides all the information about how to install an x86 client from an AI server.

Chapter 7, Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges, explains how to configure and administer RBAC and least privileges. The focus is to keep the Oracle Solaris installation safe.

Chapter 8, Administering and Monitoring Processes, provides an interesting approach on how to handle processes and their respective priorities.

Chapter 9, Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance, provides step-by-step recipes to configure the Syslog service and offers a nice introduction on performance monitoring in Oracle Solaris 11.