• SmartOS: Migrating a KVM and Non-Global Zone to a Different Machine

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    KVM:

    On the Source SmartOS Node:

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    zfs snapshot zones/d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412@migration
    zfs snapshot zones/d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412-disk0@migration
    zfs send zones/d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412@migration  | ssh root@10.0.0.3 zfs recv zones/d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412
    zfs send zones/d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412-disk0@migration  | ssh root@10.0.0.3 zfs recv zones/d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412-disk0
    scp /etc/zones/d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412.xml root@10.0.0.3:/etc/zones/

    On the Target SmartOS Node:

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    echo ‘d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412:installed:/zones/d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412:d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412’ >> /etc/zones/index
    vmadm boot d8944236-9d33-40ce-a112-5445cc40c412

    Non-Global Zone:

    It’s simple:

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    [root@10.0.0.2]# vmadm send 1a666e33-f4ca-4c4e-a4c6-a47dd3d78096 | ssh 10.0.0.3 vmadm receive
     
    Successfully sent VM 1a666e33-f4ca-4c4e-a4c6-a47dd3d78096
    Successfully received VM 1a666e33-f4ca-4c4e-a4c6-a47dd3d78096