About Orphaned Zone Boot Environments and Clones

When migrated to different hosts, non-global zones can accumulate zone boot environments that are not associated with an existing global zone. A non-global zone boot environment that is not associated with a global zone is known as an orphaned boot environment.

Orphaned zone boot environments are of use only if you intend to reattach the zone on the original source system. If there is no intent to return the zone to a global zone to which it was previously attached, you can destroy the orphaned zone boot environment.

If an orphaned boot environment is selected to attach to a zone, it is cloned. This cloned boot environment will be updated and re-parented to the active global boot environment. The original orphaned boot environment will continue to exist by default. You can specify options to handle the boot environments differently.