I had one ZFS storage pool (mirror) on my old home server, which hosts my all photos, code, and some movies. I recently bought a new HP Gen8 Microserver, installed Solaris 11 on it, now I need to import the ZFS pool to my new Gen8 server.
The first thing is simply, just remove the disks from the old server, and attach them to the Gen8, then in Solaris on Gen 8:
1. Check the current zfs storage by using zfs list
root@solar:/# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 9.99G 106G 4.64M /rpool rpool/ROOT 2.78G 106G 31K legacy rpool/ROOT/solaris 2.78G 106G 2.47G / rpool/ROOT/solaris/var 309M 106G 307M /var rpool/VARSHARE 2.53M 106G 2.44M /var/share rpool/VARSHARE/pkg 63K 106G 32K /var/share/pkg rpool/VARSHARE/pkg/repositories 31K 106G 31K /var/share/pkg/repositories rpool/VARSHARE/zones 31K 106G 31K /system/zones rpool/dump 5.14G 106G 4.98G - rpool/export 98K 106G 32K /export rpool/export/home 66K 106G 32K /export/home rpool/export/home/yang 34K 106G 34K /export/home/yang rpool/swap 2.06G 106G 2.00G - |
2. list all ZFS storage pool which can be imported by using zpool import without any pool name
root@solar:/# zpool import pool: sp id: 4536828612121004016 state: ONLINE status: The pool is formatted using an older on-disk version. action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier, though some features will not be available without an explicit 'zpool upgrade'. config: sp ONLINE mirror-0 ONLINE c3t0d0 ONLINE c3t1d0 ONLINE |
Here we can see a ZFS pool named ‘sp’ can be imported. It is a RAID 1 pool (mirror).
3. before importing, create folder to mount the pool which will be imported
root@solar:/# mkdir /sp |
4. import the pool by using zpool import #POOL_NAME
root@solar:/# zpool import sp |
5. check the imported pool and ZFS
root@solar:/sp/important/photo/All# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 118G 9.77G 108G 8% 1.00x ONLINE - sp 2.72T 284G 2.44T 10% 1.00x ONLINE - root@solar:/sp/important/photo/All# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT ... sp 284G 2.40T 152K /sp sp/important 284G 2.40T 168K /sp/important sp/important/code 63.3G 2.40T 63.3G /sp/important/code sp/important/movie 31.4G 2.40T 31.4G /sp/important/movie sp/important/photo 190G 2.40T 190G /sp/important/photo |