Hello Lutz,
First, I'd like to thank you for sharing your experience with the community.
I would guess that few people have the resources and need (and time) to
perform those tests.
Are those zones sparse-root or whole-root zones? As you may know, a
sparse-root zone has (almost) no executable programs. If your zones are
sparse-root, it makes perfect sense that everything worked correctly.
Lutz Steinbach wrote:
I've did some tests with zones on SF25k (sun4u) and on FSC PP2500 (sun4us).
The zones got created separately on each machine as whole root zone, no FS
was inherited from the global zone. The zones root FS have been put on
Hitachi SAN devs, using UFS. Everything was put into a VCS failover group
to ease zone switching. The OS release used was 01/06, hence we've got no
OS detach/attach support and had to care ourselves for matching
pkgs/patches etc.
Everything went through just fine. Zones created on sun4u could be moved to
sun4us and back again as zones created on sun4us could be moved to sun4u
and back again. The machine class of the system where the non-global zone
was created seems to be of no relevance for zone migrations.
These tests met my expectations as I assume, that all kernel
structures/functions needed for zones are implemented in kernel subsystems
that rely on but don't contain any hardware specific code. So I don't see,
why there is no clear statement, that cross-hardware zone migrations are
supported.
From a sysadmin point of view this matters, because one of the main
reason we push the use of zones is that we hope to benefit massively from
it by having in the future snappy migrations. Most likely the hardware
involved then won't be the same it is now ;-)
Regards Lutz
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