Hardware and network topology should be planned in advance of installation.

Subnetting needs to be considered when implementing IPv6 networks.

IPv4 and IPv6 network addressing cannot co-exist on the same server.

Solaris 11 enables the use of local files, NIS, DNS, or LDAP for name services.

The physical network topology will determine if you need routers, not all networks require routers.

convert all Oracle Solaris 10 packages to Oracle Solaris 11 packages using IPS

use IPS and Live Upgrade to install all updated software

use IPS to replace the Oracle Solaris 10 kernel with the Oracle Solaris 11 kernel

save user data and perform a new Oracle Solaris 11 install; there is no upgrade method

update Oracle Solaris 10 from an Oracle Solaris 11 repository

The system could not obtain a DHCP-based lease so it could not proceed.

The amount of disk space offered by the installer is inadequate so the installer attempted to compress data in memory.

The minimum amount of memory is not sufficient to load the necessary network driver so the installer tried to offer disk as backing store.

An IP address provided is located on a different network segment because the correct RARP server did not respond.

The IP address provided is outside the range of allocatable addresses.

service isolation

flexible, virtual application instances

dedicated, single purpose file servers

easy, intuitive provisioning, chargeback, and capacity planning

rigid, inflexible network design

routeadm –r

ipadm set–addrprop

ipadm set–ifprop

routeam –e

dladm set–router