Installing Oracle Solaris 11 from a DVD is a simple and straight forward task, and usually, only a few screens and inputs are required to accomplish the operation. However, when there are many hosts to be installed, this approach might not be enough anymore. In previous versions of Oracle Solaris, there was a nice feature named JumpStart that made this installation process on multiple machines very easy. As we already know, time passed and Oracle introduced a new method that installs any machine (SPARC or x86 platforms) named Automated Installer (AI).
Concisely, the AI configuration requirement is composed of the following:
Configuring the AI server that provides the install services; this is the system where all configurations are performed
Configuring a DHCP server that offers IP addresses and other network settings
Configuring an IPS repository that has all necessary packages that are required to install the Oracle Solaris 11 host
Having a client where Oracle Solaris 11 will be...