How to Archive a System That Contains Zones on Shared Storage

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This procedure shows how you can archive a system with zones on shared storage and deploy the archive to a kernel zone.

Before You Begin

You must be an administrator with the correct rights profiles to perform this task. See Using Rights Profiles with Unified Archives.

Check which zones on shared storage exist on the system to be archived.

The following example shows that the system has a global zone and zone1 on shared storage.

$ zoneadm list -icv
ID NAME             STATUS      PATH                         BRAND          IP      
 0 global           running     /                            solaris        shared    
 - zone1            installed   /system/zones/zone1          solaris        excl
$ zonecfg -z zone1 info
   zonename: zone1
   brand: solaris
   anet:    
      linkname: net0
      configure-allowed-address: true
   rootzpool:
      storage: iscsi://hostname/luname.naa.600144f0dd9e090000005758ac0e0003

Create a recovery archive for each system separately.
1. Archive the system but exclude the zone on shared storage.
  For example:
```
$ archiveadm create -r -Z zone1 global_recovery.uar
```
2. Archive the zone on shared storage by itself.
  For example:
```
$ archiveadm create -r -z zone1 zone1_recovery.uar
```

On the target system where you deploy the archive, configure a kernel zone, install it, then boot it.

$ zonecfg -z kz1 create -t SYSsolaris-kz
$ zoneadm -z kz1 install -a global_recovery.uar
$ zoneadm -z kz1 boot

Log in to the kernel zone to configure the new zone on shared storage.

Modify as well the storage devices for this zone. Then install the zone.

$ zlogin -C kz1

kz1$ zonecfg -z newzone1
zonecfg:newzone1
zonecfg:newzone1> create -a zone1_recovery.uar

zonecfg:newzone1> select rootzpool
zonecfg:newzone1:rootzpool> remove storage \
        iscsi://previous-hostname/luname.naa.600144f0dd9e090000005758ac0e0003
zonecfg:newzone1:rootzpool> add storage \
        iscsi://new-hostname/luname.naa.600144F035FF8500000050C884E50001
zonecfg:newzone1:rootzpool> end
zonecfg:newzone1> commit
zonecfg:newzone1> exit

Install, then boot, the new zone on shared storage.

kz1$ zoneadm -z newzone1 install -a zone1_recovery.uar
kz1$ zlogin -C newzone1