I'll start:
- The commands are easy to remember -- all two of them. Which is easier, SVM
or ZFS, to mirror your disks? I've been using SVM for years and still have to
break out the manual to use metadb, metainit, metastat, metattach, metadetach,
etc. I hardly ever have to break out the ZFS m
Cindy, my question is about what "system specific info" is maintained that
would need to be changed? To take my example, my E450, "homer", has disks that
are failing and it's a big clunky server anyway, and management wants to
decommission it. But we have an old 220R racked up doing nothing, a
So I had an E450 running Solaris 8 with VxVM encapsulated root disk. I
upgraded it to Solaris 10 ZFS root using this method:
- Unencapsulate the root disk
- Remove VxVM components from the second disk
- Live Upgrade from 8 to 10 on the now-unused second disk
- Boot to the new Solaris 10 install
