On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Nick Zywicki <zywickin at misys.com> wrote: > Hello all > > I know the Solaris 8 migration assistant can be used to transfer a Solaris 8 > installation to a Container within a Logical Domain. Does it work for > Solaris 9 too? Are there other ways to migrate Solaris instances to a LDom? > > How about Solaris 10? We want to move Solaris 10 environments off their > current hardware & into LDoms on a T5220: what's the best way of doing that?
If they are already on a sun4v platform, you should be able to upgrade them to a release of Solaris 10 that has T5220 support (S10u4 aka 8/07), create a flash archive of the upgraded boot environment, then install that flash archive into the LDom using jumpstart. When you perform the upgrade, be sure to install the SUNWCXall cluster to get support for as wide of a variety of hardware as possible. If it is not currently on a sun4v platform, you will have a tougher time. I suspect that you could copy the boot disk into the LDom's boot disk, then perform an upgrade in the LDom (not live upgrade - the copied image won't be bootable). However, I have not tried this and I suspect that it is not a supported operation. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
