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SmartOS Users Guide

SmartOS Basics

• The Joyent Linux-to-SmartOS Cheat Sheet
• SmartOS: A System Administrator's Primer (video, Ben Rockwood)

SmartOS for Admins

• Persistent Configuration for the Global Zone

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
• Changing virtual hardware of KVM zones

PXE

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

Adding Stuff to SmartOS

• Working with Packages
• Installing Chef on Joyent's SmartOS
• Converting Virtual Appliance Packages for Fun and Profit