How to make a bootable copy of a x4-2 (x86) Solaris 11.2 boot disk

We have 58 X4-2 which will run identical software, one in each state and some territories, so need a way to copy the template system with all the apps loaded to the other systems.  In the past we have used dd but that does not seem viable in the ZFS world on X86 hardware.  Splitting a mirrored drive off also seems to be non viable, the split is not bootable after splitting.
Is there a 'ghost' like utility available?  Any other methodology that will provide this functionality?

Hi,
this sounds like you might want to have a look at Unified Archives (maintained by archiveadm(1M)):
  Using Unified Archives for System Recovery and Cloning in Oracle Solaris 11.2
Regards,
  Ronald

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