To perform a Live Upgrade on a node that has a zone root on a VxVM volume

1. Unmount all file systems that do not contain local zone root on shared storage.
2. Shut down any application that runs on local zone. Take its resources offline and leave only the zone running.

   By default, Zone agent BootState is set to "multi-user." After you complete the upgrade, you may need to adjust this attribute to the appropriate value before you start your zone through VCS.

   Note:

   Symantec recommends that you set BootState to "multi-user-server" to run applications inside non-global zones.

3. Freeze the service group that contains the local zone. Make sure that the boot environment disk has enough space for local zone root being copied over during the Live Upgrade.
4. Follow the instruction to upgrade using Live Upgrade (which includes vxlustart, the product upgrade, and vxlufinish).

   Before rebooting the systems to complete the Live Upgrade, perform the following steps.

5. On the system that houses the local zone, copy all files and directories before the upgrade on the local zone root on shared storage to another location.

   # zoneadm list -cv
     ID NAME             STATUS     PATH            BRAND    IP
      0 global           running    /               native   shared
      6 ora-lzone        running    /oralzones      native   shared
   # zoneadm -z ora-lzone halt
   # cd /oralzones
   # ls 
   dev		lost+found	root	SUNWattached.xml
   # mv dev dev.41
   # mv root root.41
   # mv SUNWattached.xml SUNWattached.xml.41

6. Migrate all files and directories after the upgrade on the local zone root on BE to the shared storage using the tar utility:

   # cd /altroot.5.10/oralzones
   # ls
   dev		lost+found	lu	root	SUNWattached.xml
   # tar cf - . | (cd /oralzones; tar xfBp -)
   # cd /oralzones
   # ls 
   dev	.41	lost+found	root.41		SUNWattached.xml.41
   dev		lost+found	lu	root	SUNWattached.xml

7. Unfreeze the service group that contains the local zone.
8. Shut down all systems.