A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.

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Migrating a Solaris 11 Kernel Zone

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You can migrate a kernel zone to another host by using the zoneadm command. For zone migrations, a zone configuration must be portable across machines.

Using pkgcond to determine a zone type

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The pkgcond command allows you to determine the type of target being operated on (global zone, non-global zone, diskless client, and so forth)

How to verify if LDom services are started

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A short article on troubleshooting Solaris LDoms. Most LDom issues can be easily resolved by looing at the error messages.