1. Creating and Using Oracle Solaris Zones
  2. About Non-Global Zone Administration
  3. Migration and Transformation of Non-Global Zones
  4. About Zone Transformations
  5. Zone Transformations Using Oracle Solaris Unified Archives

Zone Transformations Using Oracle Solaris Unified Archives

Unified Archive files contain both zone configuration and zone data. This means that on the target system a zone can be configured and installed from the archive. You can use the zonecfg command to configure and the zoneadm command to install new zones directly from a Unified Archive file. See Using Unified Archives for System Recovery and Cloning in Oracle Solaris 11.4 for a full description of Unified Archives, including usage for system and zone cloning and recovery.

The overall process for zone transformation is as follows:

  1. Ensure that both the source host and the target host where the new zone will be located meet requirements. See Zone Transformation Requirements for Source and Target Hosts for more information.

  2. If transforming a global zone to a non-global zone, use the zonep2vchk tool to identify any issues that might cause problems in the transformed zone. See Using the zonep2vchk Tool to Prepare for Global to Non-Global Transformations for more information.

  3. Create an archive of the global zone by using the archiveadm command.

  4. Create the target zone configuration by using the zonecfg command.

  5. Install the zone from the archive by using the zoneadm command, or install a system from the archive by using the installadm command.

For more information, see the zonep2vchk(8), archiveadm(8), zfs(8), zonecfg(8), and zoneadm(8), and zones(7) man pages.