[OpenIndiana-discuss] improvement to online zone moves?

Milan Jurik milan.jurik at xylab.cz
Wed Apr 4 05:27:29 UTC 2012


Hi,

On 04.04.2012 04:41, Anil Jangity wrote:
> Are there any improvements planned for OI/Illumos with being able to
> migrate a zone from one system to another w/o having to detaching or
> doing some offline cloning? (in a "supported" way)
>
> I really wish something can be made to make this type of move easier.
>
> The proper way is to 1) halt, 2) detach, 3) zfs send|recv and 4)
> configure the zone on the destination host
>
> I would really like to instead do:
>
> 1) zfs send|recv 2) configure zone on destination host
>
> I understand the need to do zone *upgrade* on the destination, which
> is normally taken care of when doing attach -u, but I still wish we
> had something more friendly.
>

do you mean live migration of zone?

> Thanks
>
>

Best regards,

Milan



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