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To display the ZFS Boot Environments Instances

  beadm list                                                                      

          

To display the ZFS Boot Environments Instances

       beadm create New_BE_Name

       

—> beadm list



SRU upgrade steps


To displays the current publisher details(Repo Server)

  pkg publisher             


To change/set the publisher (Repo Server)                                   

  pkg set-publisher -G '*' -g http://10.xx.xx.xx solaris    


To Upgrades the SRU (takes 10-15 minutes)

  pkg update --accept    

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