Oracle VM: LDMP2V Tool

Recently I am playing with the Oracle T4 Servers, to evaluate the virtualization process of Solaris 10 OS Environment from old SunFire V-Series Hardware to new T4. The OVM package comes with a script tool called ldmp2v. It is very handy and helpful to virtulaize the Physical to Virtual machine, in a 3 step process (Collect, Prepare and Convert).

After fresh installation of Solaris 11 on T4 (Target), we will find the factory-default primary LDOM0. You don’t need to create any other LDOM, the ldmp2v will do that for you.

• {Target-T4}
  • Create Writeable NFS share folder.
• {Source-V215}
  • Stop all the user process and services.
  • Mount the Target NFS folder
  • Copy the ldmp2v script from target to source
  • ./ldmp2v collect -d /remote/nfs-folder/p2v1 (It may take ~1Hrs, depends on the data size and network speed)
• {Target}
  • Edit the /etc/ldmp2v.conf to specify your preference.
  • ldmp2v prepare -d /local/nfs-folder/p2v1 p2v1 (It may take ~2Hrs)
  • Switch off the Source machine
  • ldmp2v convert -i SolarisOS.iso -d /local/nfs-folder/p2v1 p2v1 (It may take ~2Hrs)
  • Now your new VM (p2v1) is ready
  • ldm list
  • ldm bind p2v1
  • ldm start p2v1
  • telnet localhost 500x -> Login to LDOM Console.

The entire process may take ~5Hrs approx, YMMV. For more info, plz refer the Oracle OVM Page OR Fujitsu Document on Oracle VM Server Guide.