On 02/06/2013 02:30 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Hello all, > > I am currently helping evacuate data/OS from a legacy system > that ran Solaris 10u3 (11/06) in a VM until recently - hypervisor > host died - with tasks stuffed into a number of local zones, in > whole roots over dedicated UFS SVM "partitions". The customer > has decided to migrate the services ASAP into another VM on > another box, which currently has Windows and can run VirtualBox, > by salvaging as many bytes as possible from the old installation. > Possibly, later a new dedicated hypervisor will be provided > (likely ESX, or native OI+zones+VirtualBox, maybe SmartOS+KVM...) > > Our foreseeable options are to migrate into a new VM: > 1) as is, rsync'ing the data from the old VM or even importing > its disk image if that works > > 2) into solaris 10u8 "golden image" and possibly updating the > OS parts for the local zones in the process (detact/attach -u) > > 3) into OI and stuff old tasks "as is" into solaris10 branded > zones; maybe later migrate at least some tasks to native > OI zones. > > I am partial to the OI variant, as it gives more flexibility > with networking setup and other bonuses. What I am not sure about > is the current state of affairs with the solaris10 zones: > > * is it enough to copy the zoneroot (whole root zones) and just > run it? (the global zone was nothing but a zonehoster) > > * are there limitations to the solaris 10 release which must be > imported into a branded zone? I know that there may be problems > due to mismatch of ZFS between kernel and zone, but it is not > planned to delegate datasets into these zones at the moment. > > * is it possible to "attach -u" or liveupgrade local zones that > are branded in OI (i.e. import sol10u3 and turn it into sol10u8)? > > Thanks for ideas and warnings,
I haven't done this myself, but it should *in theory* work. Can you not simply give it a try on an OI system? -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
