Lift the Workloads to the Shared Storage

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Cleanly shutdown the Oracle Database, including any applications and third party products.

This step prevents application related errors when the zone is started on the target.

oracle1@SourceSystem $ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production on Wed Aug 1 15:49:52 2018
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> shutdown immediate
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> exit

oracle1@SourceSystem $ lsnrctl stop LISTENER

LSNRCTL for Solaris: Version 10.2.0.5.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2018 15:53:26
Copyright (c) 1991, 2010, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
The command completed successfully

Create a FLAR of the source system.
The flarcreate(1M) command creates a flash archive (FLAR) of the source system, including the root file system and the mounted UFS file systems. In this example, this includes the Oracle database installation and data. The FLAR is created on the shared storage so that it is easily accessed by the target system.

Syntax:

flarcreate -L pax -S -c -n name flar_pathname

Where:
- -L pax – Create the flash archive using portable archive interchange (pax) archiver.
- -S – Skip the disk space check and do not write the archive size data to the archive.
- -c – Compress the archive using the compress(1) command.
- -n name– Used to specify a name that describes the archive. name is supplied as the value of the content_name keyword. See flash_archive(4).
- flar_pathname – Is the full path name of the created FLAR file.
Example:

Note - In this example, the time command is used to provide command duration information.
```
root@SourceSystem# time flarcreate -L pax -S -c -n my_s10_source_system /ovas/SourceSystem.flar
Full Flash
Checking integrity...
Integrity OK.
Running precreation scripts...
Precreation scripts done.
Creating the archive...
Archive creation complete.
Running postcreation scripts...
Postcreation scripts done.
Running pre-exit scripts...
Pre-exit scripts done.

real  1:03:42.9
user    32:26.8
sys      6:26.9

root@SourceSystem# ls -l  /ovas/SourceSystem.flar
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody   23384788425 Aug  1 18:19  /ovas/SourceSystem.flar
```