IBM AIX5L, AIX 4.3 manual Hardware layout, Migration using NIM

4.1 Hardware layout

To cover the most common installed hardware configurations used in several customer environments, the layout shown in Figure 4-1was chosen to perform the migration tasks.

The final hardware in customer implementation will vary, and if there is no additional, exotic, or non-IBM hardware implemented, the migration steps will run without any problems. Keep in mind that it is not possible to document all customer migrations such as those using OEM hardware components for networking, or individual OEM devices such as tapes.

9112-265	7025-F80
AIX 4.3.3
GXT4000	AIX 4.3.3
CATIA Client	GXT130
	NFS Server
	NIS Master
	ENOVIA 3d
7044-170	Portal server
AIX 4.3.3
GXT4500
CATIA Client	9114-275
	AIX 4.3.3
	GXT6500
	NIM Master
	NIS Slave

Figure 4-1 Migration hardware used

During our migration testing we used the following software products installed on the CATIA clients and the F80 Server:

￿AIX Version 4.3.3 with Maintenance Level 10

￿CATIA Version 4.2.4 Refresh 2

￿CATIA Version 5 Release 12

￿EDNOVIA 3D Portal Server Verion 5 Release 12

We have migrated the AIZ operating system level to AIX 5L Version 5.1 with Maintenance Level 5. Both CATIA versions and the EDNOVIA 3D Portal Server products ran well after the migration.

4.2 Migration using NIM

We selected NIM for the test migration. With NIM we could do the migration in a singe step without changing AIX base operating CDs, the AIX bonus pack CD, AIX expansion pack CDs, AIX documentation CDs, compiler CDs, and maintenance level CDs. In other words, a lot of time sitting in front of the servers was saved by this remote process, and we feel it will be saved for you as well.

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