Taking Solaris 11 rpool snapshot image (Flar Archive) for Installation purpose

Solaris 11 Taking rpool zfs snapshot image (Flar archive):
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Taking snapshot of rpool.

 #zfs snapshot -r rpool@Solaris11_3


We can remove swap and core dump dataset from rpool snapshot to maintain the OS image size.

#zfs destroy rpool/swap@Solaris11_3

#zfs destroy rpool/dump@Solaris11_3

Taking image and storing on shared path:

#zfs send -Rv rpool@Solaris11_3 | gzip | ssh root@191.168.28.54 "cat > /Flar/rpool_Solaris11_3_$(hostname)_$(date +%Y%m%d).zfs.gz"