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ZFS pools - data migration from Solaris X86 to SPARC

edited Feb 16, 2015 10:01AM in Oracle Solaris ZFS File System (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered

Hello Experts,


we want to migrate some Oracle systems from Solaris X86 to SPARC. All data is stored on ZFS pools (directly on SAN). According to technical docs ZFS is endian-neutral. That said it automatically converts between little-endian (X86) and big-endian (SPARC) bit order. Are there any drawbacks (i.e. performance impact, compatibility/upgrade issues, ...) using this approach (zpool export on X86 and zpool import on SPARC) on production environments ? 

Another option would be to use ZFS snapshots (zfs send / receive). Can ZFS snapshots be used between Solaris X86 and SPARC ? Are there any known issues  ?


thank you and best regards,

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