The Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Conversion tool automatically converts 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. You can 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
The conversion from a physical system to a virtual system is performed in the following phases:
Collection phase. Runs on the physical source system. In the collect phase, a file system image of the source system is created based on the configuration information that it collects about the source system.
Preparation phase. Runs on the control domain of the target system. In the prepare phase, a logical domain is created on the target system based on the configuration information collected in the collect phase. The file system image is restored to one or more virtual disks. You can use the P2V tool to create virtual disks on plain files or ZFS volumes. You can also create virtual disks on physical disks or LUNs, or on volume manager volumes that you created. The image is modified to enable it to run as a logical domain.
Conversion phase. Runs on the control domain of the target system. In the convert phase, the created logical domain is converted into a logical domain that runs the Oracle Solaris 10 OS by using the standard Oracle Solaris upgrade process.
For information about the P2V tool, see the ldmp2v(1M) man page.
The following sections describe how the conversion from a physical system to a virtual system is performed.