[OpenIndiana-discuss] cloning an OI system to VDMK

[Paolo Aglialoro]

What is the point of migrating a system which thrives on real HW ZFS to a
virtual environment where ZFS would become a heavy overhead useless
abstraction?

Your box is dying?
Buy new hardware!

Il 27 lug 2017 5:22 PM, "Daniel Kjar" <dkjar at elmira.edu> ha scritto:

> My old hardware is dying and I want to move my system to a virtualized
> environment.  I have been digging for ways to do this but I am not sure if
> I am starting to get frustrated.  I wanted to do flarcreate but apparently
> that never happened for solaris 11.  I then looked at conversion P2V stuff
> but that led nowhere but to some proprietary tools I had don't have a
> license for.  Currently I am installing a distro-const iso into Virtualbox
> but I suspect that is not going to produce what I need (a pure clone of my
> old machine).
>
> It is only  a single rpool (file storage is NFSed in from another box).
> Any suggestions?  zfs send the rpool to the new virtual machine I made
> using distro-const?  Will that even work being the rpool and all?  is there
> some super easy dd way that I am missing? This system has been running for
> over a decade and is crusty as hell, I doubt there is any way I could
> rebuild it from scratch so I would rather not.  I don't have the time to
> try and get perl and imagemagick working together again.
>
> [root at bio2:~]>zpool status
>   pool: rpool
>  state: ONLINE
>   scan: scrub repaired 0 in 1h58m with 0 errors on Mon Jan  2 16:31:55 2017
> config:
>
>         NAME          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         rpool         ONLINE       0     0     0
>           mirror-0    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c4t0d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c4t1d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>
> errors: No known data errors
> [root at bio2:~]>zfs list
> NAME                          USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> rpool                         205G  23.6G  46.5K  /rpool
> rpool/ROOT                    192G  23.6G    31K  legacy
> rpool/ROOT/openindiana       14.7M  23.6G  5.64G  /
> rpool/ROOT/openindiana-1     50.8M  23.6G  6.34G  /
> rpool/ROOT/openindiana-a8-1  42.0M  23.6G  98.8G  /
> rpool/ROOT/openindiana-a8-2  14.2M  23.6G   104G  /
> rpool/ROOT/openindiana-a8-3   192G  23.6G   119G  /
> rpool/dump                   6.00G  23.6G  6.00G  -
> rpool/swap                   6.38G  29.8G   135M  -
> [root at bio2:~]>
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