Additional Requirements for Kernel Zone Warm Migration and Live Migration

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Also see Additional Requirements for Kernel Zone Live Migration.

In addition to the requirements listed in Kernel Zone Migration Requirements, both source and target systems must meet the following requirements to use warm migration or live migration:

• The operating system on both hosts must be at least Oracle Solaris 11.3.

• If you are migrating a kernel zone between different CPU types in the same platform, you must set the cpu-arch property as explained in Preparation for Migrating Kernel Zones to Systems With Different CPUs or OS Versions.

• If you are migrating a kernel zone on a SPARC-based system from Oracle Solaris 11.4 to Oracle Solaris 11.3 and the host-compatible property is set, the value must be compatible on the source and target hosts. See Preparation for Migrating Kernel Zones to Systems With Different CPUs or OS Versions.

• If a kernel zone is using SR-IOV (enabled iov property), the ability to suspend and resume the kernel zone and migrate using warm or live migration is limited to hosts and zones running a minimum of Oracle Solaris 11.4. See About Migration of Kernel Zones with SR-IOV-Enabled anet Resources for more information.

• Source and target host systems for warm migration and live migration must have running instances of the following services:

  • Remote Administrative Daemon (RAD) services, svc:/system/rad:local and svc:/system/rad:remote

  • Network Time Protocol (NTP) client

  See Enabling Services for Warm or Live Migration for more information about these services.