Clone Workload Partition

Use this page to clone a system workload partition from an existing system WPAR. The cloning operation is not supported for WPARs that utilize remote file systems. All of the file systems for the WPAR to clone must be local file systems.

Select the following links to view the help for each page:

General

Fields

Use this tab to specify information about the clone WPAR that you want to create.
Name of the new WPAR
Specify the name for the new WPAR. The name must not be in use by a WPAR that is currently deployed on the system.
Host name for the new WPAR
Specify the hostname for the new WPAR. This is the hostname of the newly cloned WPAR that is network-enabled. This is not the hostname of the system where the WPAR is deployed.
NFS server
Specify the hostname of the NFS server that hosts the file systems for the WPAR being created. This field only displays if the cloning WPAR has an NFS-based file system.
Remote directory
Specify the remote directory that is used to host the file systems for the WPAR. This directory must be exported with read and write privileges to the root user on the NFS server for both the managed system hostname and the WPAR hostname. The root file system for the WPAR will be mounted over the remote file system and all other file systems (/home, /tmp, var) will be mounted under this location.
Mount options
Specify the mount options to apply to each of the NFS file systems configured.

Options

Fields

Use this tab to specify additional options used to create the cloned WPAR.
Automatically resolve conflicting static settings
Select this option to automatically resolve conflicting static settings for the new WPAR. Resolvable settings are base directory, hostname, and network configuration.
Inherit name resolution settings from the global system
Select this option to use the same name server and other name resolution settings as used on the global system.
Start the new WPAR immediately
Select this option to start the new WPAR after the cloning process has been completed.
Stop original WPAR before cloning
Select this option to stop the original WPAR before cloning. This option is only available if the original WPAR is currently active.

Devices

Use this tab to allocate devices to the WPAR that are available on the global system. This page is only shown if there are devices allocated to the original WPAR that contain rootvg information. Devices selected are allocated to the WPAR you are creating and are automatically assigned to the rootvg. The current rootvg data is copied to the selected devices. The device is exported and ready for use when the WPAR is restarted, unless it is exported to any other WPARs in the system

Actions

Add
Click Add to launch a new window from which you can select a device to add to the WPAR.
Remove
Click Remove to remove the device from the cloned WPAR.

Attributes

Device control
Specifies if the device should be part of the root volume group. By default, the device is not part of the root volume group. Only devices of type 'disk' can be part of the root volume group.
Device
Displays the name of the device. For example, hdisk29.
Type
Displays the type of device. For example, disk.
Subclass Type
Displays the name of the subclass type. For example, vscsi.
Device ID
Displays the ID for the device. For example, 3E213600A0B8000485AF000000E5E4922BD170F1814FAStT03IBMfcp. If you can not view the entire ID string, move your cursor over the ID. The complete ID string displays in a secondary window.
Virtual Device Name
Displays the virtual name of the device as seen from inside the WPAR. For example, hdisk29 on the global system could receive the virtual device name hdisk1 from within the WPAR.
Status
Displays the status of the device. The following lists the possible values:
  • Allocated - Indicates a device has been added to the WPAR's definition and will be exported to the WPAR at start time.
  • Missing - Indicates that a previously allocated device for the given WPAR is no longer present within the global environment.
  • Exported - Indicates when an existing device has been designated as available for WPAR import.

    Though the Exported state is not an ODM device state, a device in the Exported state is not available for use from within the global environment.