To follow this recipe, it is necessary to use a virtual machine (VMware or VirtualBox) that runs Oracle Solaris 11 with 4 GB RAM and eight 4 GB disks. Once the virtual machine is up and running, log in as the root user and open a terminal.

Every ZFS object has properties that can be accessed and, most of the time, changed. For example, to get the pool properties, we must execute the following command:

root@solaris11-1:~# zpool get all oracle_mirror_1
NAME                PROPERTY       VALUE               SOURCE
(truncated output)
oracle_mirror_1     bootfs         -                   default
oracle_mirror_1     cachefile      -                   default
oracle_mirror_1     capacity       0%                  -
oracle_mirror_1    ...