Rename a guest domain (Solaris LDOM)

Disclaimer: I test following procedure to rename the guest domain. It worked for me, but it’s may not be the right procedure. Do not try on your prod environment

Rename the Guest domain:
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Bring down the guest domain OS to OK prompt

bash-3.2# ldm list old-ldg1
NAME             STATE      FLAGS   CONS    VCPU  MEMORY   UTIL  UPTIME
old-ldg1 active     -t—-  5000    16    8G       6.2%  23h 17m

#ldm stop-domain old-ldg1
LDom old-ldg1 stopped

bash-3.2# ldm list old-ldg1
NAME             STATE      FLAGS   CONS    VCPU  MEMORY   UTIL  UPTIME
old-ldg1 bound      ——  5000    16    8G

Then run unbind command, it will change to inactive state

bash-3.2# ldm unbind old-ldg1
bash-3.2# ldm list old-ldg1
NAME             STATE      FLAGS   CONS    VCPU  MEMORY   UTIL  UPTIME
old-ldg1 inactive   ——          16    8G

Save the guest domain configuration to a xml

bash-3.2# ldm list-constraints -x old-ldg1 > /var/tmp/old-ldg1.xml

Create copy of the xmls

cp -p /var/tmp/old-ldg1.xml /var/tmp/new-ldg1.xml

bash-3.2# grep -i sngcgpsqap31 /var/tmp/old-ldg1.xml
      <Content xsi:type=”ovf:VirtualSystem_Type” ovf:id=”old-ldg1″>
            <gprop:GenericProperty key=”vol_name”>sngcgpsqap31_sys</gprop:GenericProperty>
            <gprop:GenericProperty key=”vol_name”>sngcgpsqap31_sys</gprop:GenericProperty>
            <gprop:GenericProperty key=”block_dev”>/dev/zvol/dsk/root/vdsk_sngcgpsqap31_sys</gprop:GenericProperty>
bash-3.2# cp /var/tmp/old-ldg1.xml /var/tmp/new-ldg1.xml
psqap31.xmlerl -pi -e ‘s/old-ldg1/new-ldg1/g’ /var/tmp/ldg-sngcg
bash-3.2# grep -i sngcgpsqap31 /var/tmp/new-ldg1.xml
      <Content xsi:type=”ovf:VirtualSystem_Type” ovf:id=”new-ldg1″>
            <gprop:GenericProperty key=”vol_name”>sngcgpsqap31_sys</gprop:GenericProperty>
            <gprop:GenericProperty key=”vol_name”>sngcgpsqap31_sys</gprop:GenericProperty>
            <gprop:GenericProperty key=”block_dev”>/dev/zvol/dsk/root/vdsk_sngcgpsqap31_sys</gprop:GenericProperty>
bash-3.2# ldm add-domain -i /var/tmp/new-ldg1.xml
bash-3.2# ldm list
NAME             STATE      FLAGS   CONS    VCPU  MEMORY   UTIL  UPTIME
primary          active     -n-cv-  UART    8     1G       1.1%  1d 3h 24m
new-ldg1 inactive   ——          16    8G
bash-3.2# ldm bind new-ldg1
bash-3.2# ldm start new-ldg1
LDom new-ldg1 started
bash-3.2# ldm list
NAME             STATE      FLAGS   CONS    VCPU  MEMORY   UTIL  UPTIME
primary          active     -n-cv-  UART    8     1G       4.8%  1d 3h 25m
new-ldg1 active     -t—-  5000    16    8G       3.5%  2s

Verify connecting to new guest domain console:

bash-3.2# telnet localhost 5000
Trying 127.0.0.1…
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is ‘^]’.

Connecting to console “new-ldg1″ in group “new-ldg1″ ….
Press ~? for control options ..

{0} ok
telnet> quit
Connection to localhost closed.
bash-3.2#