Jim Leonard wrote:
> We have a situation where we need to migrate some Solaris 2.6 servers
> to Solaris 8 "brandz" zones.

I assume there's a sound reason you can't go straight to Solaris 10?

> The idea was to LiveUpgrade 2.6 to 8,
> then create a flash archive of the 8 environment for moving to a
> zone. The problem we have is that the 2.6 servers are completely out
> of physical disk space and, due to various reasons not worth going
> into here, it is not feasible to attach more physical space to them to
> facilitate a live upgrade. It *is* possible to NFS mount more storage
> to each server, though.
>
> Given the above, how would you handle what we need to do? Is it
> possible to liveupgrade to an NFS mount? If not, is it possible to
> LiveUpgrade directly into a flash archive? If not, and LU is looking
> for a "physical" device to upgrade to, can something like iSCSI be
> used to "fool" it (and I wonder if iSCSI even works on 2.6)?
>
I'm sure LU requires a physical device. I'm not sure if LU was present
in Solaris 8...

> I fear the response I'm going to get is "ufsdump everything to the nfs
> mount, then restore onto a server that has extra space, then
> liveupgrade, then flar" but we were hoping to avoid that because the
> source architecture is rather old (ultra 1/2/5) and I'm not sure we
> have any of those left over here to restore to.
>
Can you get hold of an old external SCSI drive box to use with the old
systems?

--
Ian Collins.