Customers moving from earlier versions of Oracle Solaris will discover that Oracle Solaris 11 facilitates the transition process by providing tools for infrastructure migration, as well as application workload transition. Enterprise-class automated installation and provisioning is an important area for Oracle Solaris customers. Simplification and modernization of Installation is one of the key areas that has received significant attention and investment in Oracle Solaris. One of the principle goals has been to lower the up-front and ongoing costs of deploying Oracle Solaris-based systems and software stacks.

Oracle Solaris Installation Technologies:

• Unleash dramatic improvement for the cloud-driven software lifecycle process
• Reduce complexity by architecting-in and providing desired enterprise-scale flexibility features in the product
• Bring innovation with a unified design supporting various installation options including desktops, standalone "headless" servers and automating multi-server farms
• Offer superb and flexible capabilities in creating and deploying customized images
• Empower end-users to take advantage of modern network protocols and architectures with WAN-based network and file-based software repositories
• Integrate, and are engineered with other parts of Oracle Solaris, such as SMF, ZFS, IPS to provide a more consistent experience when installing (and subsequently updating) bare-metal systems or Zones
• Provide tools to make it easier for customers to transition from Jumpstart-based installation environments

Podcasts

	Podcast - Tools To Help You Move From Oracle Solaris 10 To 11 New
	Podcast - Oracle Solaris 11: Tools For System Archival and Image Creation New
	Podcast - Modernized Installation Experience in Oracle Solaris

Resources

	How-To Guide - How to Set Up Automated Installation Services for Oracle Solaris 11 New
	How-To Guide - How to Live Install from Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 New
	How-To Guide - How to Perform System Archival and Recovery Procedures with Oracle Solaris 11
	How-To Guide - How to Create a Customized Oracle Solaris 11 Image Using the Distribution Constructor
	Article - Installing Oracle Solaris 10 Using JumpStart on an Oracle Solaris 11 Server

Podcasts

	Cheat Sheet - Installation and Deployment Administration New
	Presentation and recording at Oracle Solaris Day in New York 2010 - Deploying Oracle Solaris 11 in the Enterprise, by Dave Miner, Architect for Oracle Solaris Installation
	Training - Oracle Solaris 11

Related Technologies

	Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
	Developing Enterprise Applications
	Security
	Oracle Solaris Availability
	Virtualization
	Network Virtualization
	ZFS
	Image Packaging System (IPS)
	x86 Optimization