Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Enda O'Connor
Mads Toftum wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:11:13PM -0800, Andrew wrote: Can anyone advise if it is supported to migrate a zone from one SPARC architecture to another? E.G., Sun4u to Sun4v? I presume this should be ok provided the Solaris build on both target and source platforms is

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Nov 8, 2007 4:14 AM, Mads Toftum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:11:13PM -0800, Andrew wrote: Can anyone advise if it is supported to migrate a zone from one SPARC architecture to another? E.G., Sun4u to Sun4v? I presume this should be ok provided the Solaris build

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Nov 8, 2007 6:40 AM, LaoTsao(Dr. Tsao) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi it seems these issues will be solved by a brandZ for s10, nv etc not? Is that in the works? I've seen an example of how to do it on your own but I haven't heard of any supported variant. The key gotcha with this approach

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Nov 8, 2007 7:12 AM, LaoTsao(Dr. Tsao) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to see this functionality, but as I was trying to articulate why in a thread (I think regarding update on attach) I was having a hard time. I really think that update on attach would also solve the issue at

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Mads Toftum
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:22:40AM -0700, Jerry Jelinek wrote: For zones update on attach we are not supporting downgrading a zone. If you think you will want to migrate back, just leave the original copy of the zone on the original machine and don't boot it. That may be fine if you're

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ihsan Zaghmouth wrote: Jerry, How the *update on attach* is planned to be deployed, patch update or next release of solaris10 U5 ? I am currently working on getting this done for nevada. Once it is integrated there then we'll see what S10 update we might be able to get into. I can

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Ihsan Zaghmouth
Jerry, How the "update on attach" is planned to be deployed, patch update or next release of solaris10 U5 ? Does this address the patch management of a migrated zone in "configuered" state and abscent from the node intended to be patched ? In other words, If the patch manager on local node

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Mads Toftum wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:22:40AM -0700, Jerry Jelinek wrote: For zones update on attach we are not supporting downgrading a zone. If you think you will want to migrate back, just leave the original copy of the zone on the original machine and don't boot it. That may be

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Mads Toftum wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:48:12AM -0700, Jerry Jelinek wrote: Although downgrading the zone might work in some cases it really unsupportable in the general case so we have no plans to do it. Would it at least be possible to get a list of patches that should have been

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-08 Thread Ihsan Zaghmouth
Jerry Jelinek wrote: Ihsan Zaghmouth wrote: Jerry, How the *update on attach* is planned to be deployed, patch update or next release of solaris10 U5 ? I am currently working on getting this done for nevada. Once it is integrated there then we'll see what S10 update we might be

[zones-discuss] Zone Migration - Sun4u to Sun4v - Supported?

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew
Dear *, Can anyone advise if it is supported to migrate a zone from one SPARC architecture to another? E.G., Sun4u to Sun4v? I presume this should be ok provided the Solaris build on both target and source platforms is the same? Customer has ordered 5220's which will not arrive in time for