Cloning the base LDOM image to create new LDOMs

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So You should by now have create a base LDOM image and be ready to clone it into lots of different LDOMs.

1. Create a snapshot of the base LDOMs ZFS disk image 

 zfs snapshot storage/base/disk0@unconfigured_base

ZFS table should look something like this: 

 # zfs list
 NAME                                   USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
 rpool                                 25.4G   109G    93K  /rpool
 rpool/ROOT                            5.36G   109G    18K  legacy
 rpool/ROOT/s10s_u7wos_08              5.36G   109G  5.36G  /
 rpool/dump                            10.0G   109G  10.0G  -
 rpool/swap                              10G   118G  16.4M  -
 storage                               46.4G   620G  36.5K  /storage
 storage/base                          46.4G   620G  34.9K  /storage/base
 storage/base/disk0                    46.4G   658G  9.24G  -
 storage/base/disk0@unconfigured_base      0      -  9.24G  -

Note that the snapshot has a size of 0!

2. Create a new ZFS filesystem to hold the disk image of the new LDOM you want to create 

 zfs create storage/ldomclone

3. Clone the base LDOM disk image from it's snapshot 

 zfs clone storage/base/disk0@unconfigured_base storage/ldomclone/disk0

This create a disk image called storage/ldomclone/disk0 which is an exact copy of the base image. Again, notice that the clone has a size of 0: 

 # zfs list
 NAME                                   USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
 rpool                                 25.4G   109G    93K  /rpool
 rpool/ROOT                            5.36G   109G    18K  legacy
 rpool/ROOT/s10s_u7wos_08              5.36G   109G  5.36G  /
 rpool/dump                            10.0G   109G  10.0G  -
 rpool/swap                              10G   118G  16.4M  -
 storage                               46.4G   620G  38.2K  /storage
 storage/base                          46.4G   620G  34.9K  /storage/base
 storage/base/disk0                    46.4G   658G  9.24G  -
 storage/base/disk0@unconfigured_base      0      -  9.24G  -
 storage/ldomclone                     34.9K   620G  34.9K  /storage/ldomclone
 storage/ldomclone/disk0                   0   620G  9.24G  -

4. Now follow steps 3-12 of Creating a base LDOM image.

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