Create the Archive of the Source Guest Domain

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Once you have prepared the source system, target system, and shared storage (see Preparing the Source, Target, and Shared Storage), you can create the source system archive.

Note - If you plan to use the alternate method to only include a subset of virtual disks in the archive, do not follow this procedure. Instead, perform Create the Source Archive (Alternate Method).

This procedure creates an archive file on the shared storage. The archive file contains compressed versions of all of the source guest domain's virtual disks and configuration files.

image:A diagram showing how the ovmtcreate command creates an archive file on the shared storage.

Ensure that the latest version of patch 151934 is installed on the source system.
The latest patch is required so that the source system has the latest versions of OVMT utilities (see Prepare the Source System).
```
root@SourceControlDomain# showrev -p | grep 151934
Patch: 151934-06 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWldmib, SUNWldm
```
On the source system, login as the Oracle user and shutdown the Oracle environment including the database, any applications, third party products, and so on.
This example is of an Oracle restart environment, so the crsctl command is used.

Note – It is a good practice to perform this step to avoid any application related errors on the target after the deployment. After the deployment, crsctl can be used to restart and enable the high availability components.
```
$ crsctl stop has
$ crsctl disable has
```
Stop the source guest domain.
This step is important because the ovmtcreate utility requires the Oracle Solaris 10 domain to be in a bound state.
```
root@SourceControlDomain# ldm stop solaris10
```

Create the archive of the source guest domain.

Use the ovmtcreate command that was obtained from patch 151934 (see Prepare the Source System).

The ovmtcreate command examines the topology of a logical domain to create an archive, which is in the form of an OVF archive (.ova file).

Run this command as superuser on the source control domain.

Not all ovmtcreate options are listed here. For more information about ovmtcreate, refer to the ovmtcreate (1M) man page.

Syntax

/opt/SUNWldm/lib/contrib/ovmtcreate –d GuestDomain -w Working_Directory –o Archive_File_on_Shared_Storage –s “Description”

Where:

-d GuestDomain – The name of your guest domain.
-w Working_Directory – The full path to the working directory that you prepared in Prepare the Source System.
-o Archive_File_on_Shared_Storage – The full path name of the location that you prepared in Prepare a Shared Storage Location for the Archive.
-s Description– A short description of the archive.

Note – For Oracle Solaris 10, the full path to the command is /opt/SUNWldm/lib/contrib/ovmtcreate.

root@SourceControlDomain# ovmtcreate -d solaris10  -w /WorkingDirectory   -o /ovas/solaris10.ova  -s "source S10 domain"

Oracle VM for SPARC Template Creation Utility
ovmtcreate     Version:  on10-patch20171108123131

STAGE 1 - EXAMINING SYSTEM AND ENVIRONMENT
------------------------------------------
Performing platform & prerequisite checks
Checking user permissions
Checking for required packages
Checking for required services
Checking directory permissions

STAGE 2 - ANALYZING DOMAIN
---------------------------
Retrieving and processing attributes
Checking domain state
Getting domain resource settings
Discovering network topology
Discovering disk topology

STAGE 3 - ARCHIVE CREATION
---------------------------
Checking destination and current directory capacity
Processing disk images 1 of 6
Processing disk images 2 of 6
Processing disk images 3 of 6
Processing disk images 4 of 6
Processing disk images 5 of 6
Processing disk images 6 of 6
Creating XML configuration
Calculating manifest checksums
Creating archive file
Checking archive

PROCESS COMPLETED
------------------
Started: Tue Feb 13 15:34:10 PST 2018
Completed: Tue Feb 13 22:15:06 PST 2018
Elapsed time: 6:40:56

Verify the creation of the source archive.

root@SourceControlDomain# Shared_Location#  ls -rtlh *.ova
-rw-r--r--   1 root         97G Feb 13 22:15 solaris10.ova

(If needed) Reconfigure the source system's CPU and memory resources to their original values.
Perform this step if you changed the CPU and memory resources in Prepare the Source System.