Jim has an easy style, a gift that seems common among Sun's top engineers, that allows him to drill fairly deep into the technical details of Solaris without losing a lot of people.
If this weapon falls into the wrong hands, we're all screwed.
Here's a simple kludge for storing some Dtrace one-liners using Korn shell functions. The technique is useful for any favorite but tedious-to-type command line stuff, but it seems especially well suited for this task.
This is just a cheap trick en route to building an arbitrary set of zones in the least possible time. The end result of this walk-through creates new zones in a few keystrokes. Along the way, however, I also create a cheater device pool using space from an existing UFS partition. That's fun too.