On this page:

SmartOS Basics

• Finding Your Way Around a SmartMachine - This document from the Joyent cloud wiki is helpful to Linux users approaching SmartOS for the first time.
• The Joyent Linux-to-SmartOS Cheat Sheet
• Commands that Work Differently (from Linux) in SmartOS
• SmartOS Setup
• SmartOS Guest Provisioning
• SmartOS for the Uninitiated - Zone Creation
• SmartOS: A System Administrator's Primer (video, Ben Rockwood)

SmartOS for Admins

SmartOS, a Primer for Sysadmins 

Ben Rockwood speaking at the BayLISA meetup at Joyent, August 16, 2012

SmartOS Operations

Ben Rockwood at illumos Day, Oct 2012, gives a look at tools and techniques for large-scale operations in a SmartOS environment, from monitoring to configuration management and troubleshooting.

KVM

• Migrating from VirtualBox to KVM on ZFS

PXE

• Serving SmartOS from your PXE server
• Simple PXE Server - Using SmartOS to host a PXE server to serve SmartOS

Adding Stuff to SmartOS

• Working with Packages
• Installing Chef on Joyent’s SmartOS
• Installing Software on a SmartMachine
• Converting Virtual Appliance Packages for Fun and Profit