Creating, activating, and destroying a boot environment
I always like to ask this question with respect to BEs: what are the facts that make life easier when administering Oracle Solaris 11?
Maybe the answers aren't so difficult; to prove this, let's imagine a scenario. We are requested to update Oracle Solaris 11, and to do this, we need to reboot the system, insert the Oracle Solaris 11 installation DVD, and during the boot, we have to choose the upgrade option. Is the upgrade complete? Is there no further problem? Unfortunately, this is not true because there are some potential tradeoffs:
- We had to stop applications and reboot the operating system, and users had to stop work on their tasks
- If there was trouble upgrading the Oracle Solaris operating ...
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