How to Migrate Solaris zones

To move a zone within the system we follow the following steps,

# zoneadm -z zonename halt

# zoneadm -z zonename move /export/home/zones/newzonename

To migrate the zone from one system to another follow the steps as below;

1. Both the system hardware and Os must be same . Check with uname -u like sun4u and sun4v

2. Check for the zone which you want to migrate

# zoneadm list -vc

Halt the zone which we want to migrate

# zoneadm -z zonename halt

# zoneadm -z zonename detach

Look with the command zoneadm list -vc , the zone will be in configure state.

3. Move the zone from this system to another

# cd /export/home/zones

Tar the zone which we want to migrate

# tar cf newzonename.tar zonename

Copy the tar file to the new system

# scp newzonename.tar systemname(IP):/export/home/zones

It will prompt for password, give the password and continue.

4. Go on to the new system

# cd /export/home/zones

Untar the file

# tar xf newzonename.tar

On the new system run the following commands

# zonecfg -z newzonename

>create -a /export/home/newzonename

> add net

> set physical=hme0

> set address=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

> end

> verify

> commit

> exit

5. Attach the zone in this system

# zoneadm -z newzonename attach -F

6 . Boot the zone

# zoneadm -z newzonename boot

7. Login into the system with same user and passowrd

# zlogin newzonename