Today should have been a nice quiet day, however courtesy of my continental colleagues insistence that we don’t use Solarise Zones inside VMWare. I had to spend most of the day in the office, working on a solution to a problem I didn’t know I had until yesterday. What this all boiled down to was a reluctance to use Solaris Zones in a virtual machine, virtualisation within virtualisation if you like.
Anyway, it looks like I now have a solution to the problem of setting a host ID within a global zone. Which will allow me to remove three machines running versions of Solaris from the late 90’s and the early 2000’s, versions that haven’t been patched since they were installed. These have to be virtualised prior to the relocation of the systems to a new location, which happens in just five days as the title of this post suggests.
So whats left to do now, well quite a lot really. There are still three or four systems to virtualise and test, all the media archive has to be cataloged and then moved to secure storage. Much of the equipment for disposal has to be stripped of media such as hard drives and anything that can be reused, so I’ll have quite a lot of work to do over the next week. Still I managed to knock one more job on the head, only about an other hundred or so still to go.
The Europeans will be over from Thursday and then the fun will begin, I’ve now got a whole load of documentation completed and stored away for audit purposes. No more stepping off the gas on this job now, it will be running at full tilt until the move has been completed.