Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-07 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-06 14:30, Jim Klimov wrote: I am currently helping evacuate data/OS from a legacy system Our foreseeable options are to migrate into a new VM: 2) into solaris 10u8 golden image and possibly updating the OS parts for the local zones in the process (detact/attach -u) Well,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-07 Thread Roel_D
Pssst.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/solarispackages/ don't let anyone hear this ;-) -Original Message- From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] Sent: donderdag 7 februari 2013 10:57 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded

[OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Jim Klimov
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Roel_D
If the old software/services running on the old solaris didn't rely on /usr or /etc installed software (like apache/mysql/java-based software) i would suggest to only copy the software directories in newly created zones. It could take more hours to hurdle all the OS mismatches then to copy the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-06 21:20, Roel_D wrote: If the old software/services running on the old solaris didn't rely on /usr or /etc installed software (like apache/mysql/java-based software) i would suggest to only copy the software directories in newly created zones. It could take more hours to hurdle

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-02-06 21:20, Roel_D wrote: If the old software/services running on the old solaris didn't rely on /usr or /etc installed software (like apache/mysql/java-based software) i would suggest to only copy the software directories in newly created zones. It could take more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/06/2013 09:48 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-02-06 21:20, Roel_D wrote: If the old software/services running on the old solaris didn't rely on /usr or /etc installed software (like apache/mysql/java-based software) i would suggest to only copy the software directories

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/06/2013 09:48 PM, Ian Collins wrote: It's well worth taking the next step. We have migrated nearly all of our Solaris and Linux VMs into zones. Much better performance and way less arse ache! Are you guys doing Linux in zones? What's the status of these brands in