Consolidating Legacy Solaris Systems With Oracle VM Server

You can use the Oracle VM Server for SPARC physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion tool to automatically convert an existing physical system to a virtual system that runs the Oracle Solaris 10 OS in a logical domain on a chip multithreading (CMT) system. Run the ldmp2v command from a control domain that runs the Oracle Solaris 10 OS or the Oracle Solaris 11 OS to convert one of the following source systems to a logical domain:

• Any sun4u SPARC based system that runs at least the Solaris 8, Solaris 9, or Oracle Solaris 10 OS

• Any sun4v system that runs the Oracle Solaris 10 OS, but does not run in a logical domain

Note that the ldmp2v command does not support any SPARC based system that runs the Oracle Solaris 10 OS with a ZFS root or the Oracle Solaris 11 OS.

See Chapter 13, Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool, in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.2 Administration Guide.