Solaris Server Migration Consultant (100% Remote)

New Millennium Consulting; United States; Remote; USD 5,786,000 - 7,232,000; Full time

Job summary

New Millennium Consulting seeks a Solaris Server Migration Consultant for a 60–70 hour engagement. You will remotely deploy Solaris-10 M10 servers, configure ILOM, and migrate zones and storage from v890 to M10 systems.

Responsibilities include zone migrations, LUN/zone storage setup, and network configuration, with firmware updates and validation. This is a remote, short-term project paying $70–$75 per hour.

Responsibilities

• Migrate 9 native Solaris-10 zones from v890 csnsdevsol1 on first m10
• Migrate 2 native Solaris-10 zones from v890 csnsdevsol2 on second m10
• Migrate 1 branded Solaris-9 zone from v890 csnsdevsol2 on second m10
• Migrate 4 branded Solaris-8 zones from v890 csnsdevsol2 on second m10
• Deploy 2 new Solaris-10 m10 servers remotely
• Configure ilom
• No ldoms (unless Solaris-11)
• Install same OS as currently on v890 or later
• Update firmware if necessary and possible
• Configure m10 servers onto network
• Setup shared NFS storage between v890 and m10
• Migrate a zone: shutdown/detach v890 zone, export config, create image on shared storage, import image on m10, create zones, boot and test
• Preparation to swing luns and related storage setup as needed
• Create and mount new luns matching v890 and create zfs datasets on the luns
• Swing luns from v890 to m10 as part of migration

Job description

Title:

Solaris Server Migration Consultant

Duration:

60 - 70 hours total

Hourly:

$70 - $75 per hour

Scope:

Deploy 2 new solaris-10 m10 servers remotely

• Configure ilom
• No ldoms (unless solaris-11)
• Install same os as currently on v890 or later
• Update firmware if necessary and possible
• Configure m10 servers onto network

Decide and configure storage

if internal storage

• Create zfs pool
• Create zfs datasets matching mountpoints on v890

if new netapp luns

• Create and mount new luns matching v890
• Create zfs datasets on luns

if single netapp lun

• Create zfs pool
• Create zfs datasets matching mountpoints on v890

if current netapp luns

• Preparation to swing luns from v890 to m10

Setup shared nfs storage between v890 and m10

Migrating a zone

• shutdown and detach v890 zone
• export zone config
• create image of zone on shared storage
• import image of zone on m10
• create zones on m10 from zone config
• attach and boot zone
• test zone on m10

Migration Responsibilities

1. Migrate 9 native solaris-10 zones from v890 csnsdevsol1 on first m10
2. Migrate 2 native solaris-10 zones from v890 csnsdevsol2 on second m10
3. Migrate 1 branded solaris-9 zone from v890 csnsdevsol2 on second m10
4. Migrate 4 branded solaris-8 zones from v890 csnsdevsol2 on second m10