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Administering Oracle Solaris 11 Boot Environments Oracle Solaris
11 Information Library| A boot environment is a bootable
instance of the Oracle Solaris operating system image plus any
other application software packages installed into that image.
System administrators can maintain multiple boot environments on
their systems, and each boot environment can have different
software versions installed. Upon the initial installation of
the Oracle Solaris release onto a system, a boot environment is
created. You can use the beadm(1M) utility to create and
administer additional boot environments on your system. Note -
In addition, the Package Manager GUI provides some options for
managing boot environments. Note the following distinctions
relevant to boot environment administration: A boot environment
is a bootable Oracle Solaris environment consisting of a root
dataset and, optionally, other datasets mounted underneath it.
Exactly one boot environment can be a