Old ESXi 5.5 w/OpenIndiana napp-it to ESXi 6.x & OmniOS?

[takt]

I dug up an old server which currently doesn't boot up likely due to a dead usb thumbdrive where ESXi 5.5 was installed to. One of the VMs was running napp-it zfs v. 0.9a9 nightly Mar.04.2013 with OpenIndiana. This was using the all-in-one setup guide posted on napp-it's website.

Would it be easier to install the newest ESXi to a new thumbdrive, put OmniOS in a VM and install napp-it on top? I wish to preserve my existing zfs setup which is all connected to a IBM M1015 in IT mode passed through to the VM.

 

[whitey]

I see no issues w/ this, lay down image for ESXi onto usb stick, make sure you have a drive to house OmniOS/napp-it stg appliance VM on in server connected to onboard sata port...setup AIO stg appliance on that local datastore, import existing pool...

Off to the races.

 

[takt]

Thanks. Is it possible to import that pool into say a FreeNas or other?

 

[gea]

You can move pools between OpenZFS (BSD, Illumos, OSX, Linux).
For Oracle Solaris this is limited to Pools v28 ZFS v5.