It may not be supported, but you can swap drives between systems and it
does work very well.
I did a Solaris 8 -> Solaris 10 migration on ~200 systems in 2007. I
had a set of systems that I jumpstarted, then, once the system was
built, I pulled the drives and placed them in the new system.
It worked very well and I had minimal downtime for people using these
servers.
Jerry
On 12/12/09 12:32, Mattias Pantzare wrote:
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 18:08, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:53 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:22 +0000, Moritz Willers wrote:
The host identity had - of course - changed with the new motherboard
and it no longer recognised the zpool as its own. 'zpool import -f
rpool' to take ownership, reboot and it all worked no problem (which
was amazing in itself as I had switched from AMD to Intel ...).
Do I understand correctly if I read this as: OpenSolaris is able to
switch between systems without reinstalling? Just a zfs import -f and
everything runs? Wow, that would be an improvemment and would make
things more like *BSD/linux.
Solaris has been able to do that for 20+ years. Why do you think
it should be broken now?
Solaris has _not_ been able to do that for 20+ years. In fact Sun has
always recommended a reinstall. You could do it if you really knew
how, but it was not easy.
If you switch between identical system it will of course work fine
(before zfs that is, now you may have to import the pool on the new
system).
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