Update: I was off base with my assumption about the upgrade problem not being related to MPXIO (Traffic Manager). That is exactly where the problem lies.
I finally had a chance to try doing an upgrade on a server with a SAN-based zone root without MPXIO and the upgrade worked with no problems. So disregard my comments about the fundamental design flaw - they are wrong. My suggested changes are unneeded. I still have the problem with upgrading. Live Upgrade still does not look like it will ever be a possibility for the reasons listed in the original post. It now looks like I will first have to convert my servers off of MPXIO prior to doing the upgrade, run the upgrade, and then re-enable MPXIO. (As well as unencapsulating and re-encapsulating the boot drives for Veritas Volume Manager.) It's going to be real ugly, particularly because I don't currently know of a way to identify the mapping between the MPXIO devices and the same non-MPXIO devices. I still think that using MPXIO is the correct design decision for high availablity of the zones but the side-effects of that decision are a lot worse than I had anticipated. Perhaps a future update will allow for the use of MPXIO as an option for sites that are in my position. Phil This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list [email protected]
