p2v conversion of solaris master server
I have a legacy solaris physical master server on SPARC hardware. We are thinking of decommissioning the physical server and covnert it to a virtual machine (for regulatory reasons). while doing p2v,...
To summarise what others have said:-
- you cant p2v a sparc
- you can create an x86 solaris vm and import your catalog to it from disk
- it works, I've done it (almost: I've gone from sparc to x86 physical: no reason to believe it would not work on vm)
- name needs to be same. For the VM you can disconnect the nic so its not on the network the same time as the original.
-think of it as disaster recovery. Beware if you want to actually recover data, as you dont have and cant have tape attached to VM.
Jim
