Working with migrations from physical Oracle Solaris 10 hosts to Oracle Solaris 11 Zones
Two common questions arise when considering how to deploy Oracle Solaris 11. First, what can we do with the previous Oracle Solaris 10 installation? Second (and worse), what is possible with Oracle Solaris 10 Zones?
Happily, Oracle Solaris 11 provides an optimal solution for both cases: the physical to virtual (P2V) migration where a physical Oracle Solaris 10 installation is migrated to Oracle Solaris 11 Zone and the virtual to virtual (V2V) migration where an Oracle Solaris 10 native zone is migrated to a Solaris 10 branded zone on Oracle Solaris 11.
Getting ready
This recipe requires one virtual machine (VirtualBox or VMware) with Oracle Solaris 11 installed, ...
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