In previous chapters, the ovmtcreate command captures all of the source guest domain virtual disks in the archive. In this alternate method, the ovmtcreate -I option enables you to specify a specific subset of virtual disks to be included in the archive.
Excluding large virtual disks can significantly shorten the time required to create and deploy the archive. For a comparison, the method used earlier, with 1396 GB of software, took 6 hours and 40 minutes to create the archive. The example in this chapter, with 644 GB of software, took approximately 2 hours and 55 minutes.
This alternate method is convenient when you want to exclude certain virtual disks from the archive. For example, you plan to use alternative means of migrating application data. You might capture the OS virtual disks in the archive. For the applications or data virtual disks, you plan to physically move the original storage device to the target system, or you want to use application-based data replication. There are also a variety of Oracle Solaris utilities you can use to migrate data to the target system.
The flow of this alternate lift and shift method is similar to the process described in earlier chapters, with a few exceptions that are described in this chapter.
To use the alternate method, perform the tasks in this table.
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