About the zonep2vchk Tool

The zonep2vchk tool evaluates a global zone, or physical instance, for potential issues that can occur when it is converted to a non-global zone, or virtual instance. The zonep2vchk tool can be run with an effective user id of 0.

The zonep2vchk tool does the following:

• Identifies problem areas in the source system's configuration

• Minimizes the manual reconfiguration effort required

• Supports conversion of Oracle Solaris global zones into non-global zones on the same Oracle Solaris releases

• Supports complex network configurations in the original system image, including multiple IP interfaces, IP multipathing, and VLANs

Use the zonep2vchk tool to assist in the transformation of an Oracle Solaris global zone to a non-global zone. The tool evaluates the system to flag any issues that might complicate or prevent transformation to a solaris brand zone, and makes suggestions for actions to take to enable conversion. The tool can also provide a template for the new solaris zone configuration.

The following figure shows using zonev2pchk to aid physical system transformation to a zone on an Oracle Solaris system.

zonep2vchk Evaluation Scenarios