Re: [zones-discuss] Any issues with migrating zones back-and-forth between sun4u and sun4v systems?

2009-09-04 Thread Steffen Weiberle
On 09/04/09 11:21, Jim Nissen wrote: All, A customer is migrating five zones, from a Niagara system to a M5000, to test performance. The zones are in a ZFS pool, on SAN storage. They plan on moving this storage over to the M5000, and doing a straight import of the zones vs. making a copy of

Re: [zones-discuss] Any issues with migrating zones back-and-forth between sun4u and sun4v systems?

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Nissen
Steve/Steffen, Yes, I just tried this in the lab... - Install base S10U6 on both hosts, create zpool and sparse-root zone. - On T2000, detach zone, and create ZFS snapshot. - zfs send/receive that snapshot to a v490, and import zone with '-u'. - and back to T2000, same way. This works, as long

Re: [zones-discuss] Any issues with migrating zones back-and-forth between sun4u and sun4v systems?

2009-09-04 Thread Jason Schroeder
On 09/04/09 11:21, Jim Nissen wrote: All, A customer is migrating five zones, from a Niagara system to a M5000, to test performance. The zones are in a ZFS pool, on SAN storage. They plan on moving this storage over to the M5000, and doing a straight import of the zones vs. making a copy

Re: [zones-discuss] Any issues with migrating zones back-and-forth between sun4u and sun4v systems?

2009-09-04 Thread Steffen Weiberle
On 09/04/09 16:39, Jason Schroeder wrote: Depending on how their common OS standard builds are kept in sync, and what meta package bundle they typically install on their boxes, there may be some sync/cleanup of patches/packages that need to be done to ensure both sides are in sync as reported