Re: Removing SVM from system

Stefan Krueger <stadtkind2@xxxxxx> writes:

Drazen Kacar wrote:
I have several T2000 servers and I didn't notice on time that they had
disk controller which was capable of hardware RAID. So currently they
use SVM for software RAID (on Solaris 10 update 6). All file systems are
UFS and I'd like to use ufsdump to create cold backups, then create
hardware mirrors and the same partitions and then use ufsrestore to
bring everything back.

Since you want to ufsdump everything anyway, why don't you go one step
further and use ZFS (booting from ZFS is supported since Solaris10u6) on
your disks (w/o hardware raid of course!)?

I'm not quite sure how the hw-raid stuff works on your t2000 server, but
AFAIK you'll have to reinstall everything anyway (i.e. the creation of
hardware raid "disks" will destroy the content on your disks)

If you have sufficient spare disks, you could use an upgrade using
liveupgrade.

Casper
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