About Kernel Zone Evacuation

Kernel zone evacuation is the process of live migrating all the running kernel zones off a system at once, and optionally returning them to the system later. By live migrating all kernel zones from a host system onto other systems temporarily, you can perform maintenance on the host system without having to halt applications that are running in those kernel zones. You can optionally evacuate all zones, including kernel zones that are not running solaris zones in the installed state.

Evacuation uses the Remote Administration Daemon (RAD) to coordinate and execute the migration of zones to their destinations, so RAD services must be running on source hosts and target hosts. For more information about RAD, see the rad(8) man page.