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Old 08-29-2019
There is also one other option.

Newish sparc hardware with latest solaris.
Solaris 10 VM inside LDOM -> Solaris 8 branded zone inside.

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Peasant.
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Old 08-29-2019
@Peasant........yes, agreed, that LDOM is the best solution if Sparc based. I was also citing a probably cheaper solution by using a second-user piece of tin running Solaris 10 GZ and two NGZ Solaris 8 branded zones within.
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Old 08-30-2019
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Originally Posted by hicksd8
@Peasant........yes, agreed, that LDOM is the best solution if Sparc based. I was also citing a probably cheaper solution by using a second-user piece of tin running Solaris 10 GZ and two NGZ Solaris 8 branded zones within.
I doubt with somewhat high probility the original poster is looking to replace a Sparc server with a Sparc server.

His organization is probably in "consolidate and retire" mode as a cost-savings measure (not a technical exercise) and they have two remaining (has he says) Sparc servers they want to retire. It's more expensive for organizations to maintain two difference architectures (like X86 and Sparc) than a single architecture like X86; and based on the wording in the original poster's replies, I think it may safe to assume that retiring two Sparc servers and replacing them with other Sparc servers is not their business objective.

I could be wrong, but the odds are in my favor of being correct; and we will not know until the OP posts back.

However, based on my experience working in many data center transitions, I highly suspect the business goal for the OP's organization is to retire all legacy Sparc machines in favor of x86, inline with what most other organizations are doing these days, as cost-cutting measure (not a technical measure), which is a good idea anyway.

In most organization, the cost of the hardware is very small compared to the cost of skilled-labor to maintain (and the recurring annual software licenses), so I doubt anyone really cares about a few dollars here and their for hardware changes in this case.
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