Nikhil, Comments inline...
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:09:16PM +0530, Nikhil wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a Solaris 10 box on a v20z with 11/06 release. It has got ZFS > pool configured on S1 storage box with 3 146gb disks (it has got lot of > data) > I am planning to upgrade the machine to the new hardware with the new > Solaris 10 release of 8/07 and to the new hardware of X2200M2. > > I am wondering will there be any thing that I need to take care of before > putting the S1 storage box onto the new hardware X2200 pulling from the old > hardware, meaningly do I need to sync any data before the switch of the > system to the new hardware (essentially switch of the storage to be plugged > to the new hardware). > > Do I need to do any kind of sync of zfs metadata? So, from what I understand you have the entire pool built out of disks from the same S1 box. In that case all you need to do is : - Export the pool on the old box : zpool export <poolname> - Connect the S1 to the new machine - Import the pool : zpool import <poolname> Hope that helps. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev > > If I simply pull out the S1 storage box(on which the zfs is configured for a > long time now with data) and plug it to the new hardware, will the OS with > new release detect the pool as it is ? and also have the data on it? or Will > it detect them as the new disks to be configured again from scratch? I do > not want to lose any data. > > Kindly suggest what is to be done here. > > Thanks, > Nikhil _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
