1 Server migration introduction

Overview

HP Insight Control server migration provides an automated, accurate, and affordable way to migrate existing servers running Microsoft Windows or Linux and their content to the latest HP ProLiant server technologies or the latest virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft.

Insight Control server migration supports the following types of Microsoft Windows and Linux migrations:

•Physical-to-ProLiant (P2P) migration—Migrates a physical machine to a ProLiant server.

•Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration—Migrates a physical machine to a virtual machine guest in a virtual machine host.

•Virtual-to-ProLiant (V2P) migration—Migrates a virtual machine guest in a virtual machine host to a ProLiant server.

•Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration—Migrates a virtual machine guest between virtualization layers.

Installing and configuring server migration software

Installing or upgrading server migration software

HP Insight Control server migration software is delivered on the HP Insight Management distribution media and is installed through the Insight Management Integrated Installer. The server on which you install Insight Management is designated to be the Central Management Server (CMS).

For installation and upgrade instructions and supported upgrade paths, see the HP Insight Management Installation and Configuration Guide.

For a description of all software that is delivered on the Insight Management distribution media, see the HP Insight Management Getting Started Guide.

Licensing server migration

The standard procedure for licensing Insight Control server migration is to purchase and apply Insight Control licenses. So if your destination server is licensed by Insight Control version 6.0 or later, you can perform unlimited migrations to the Insight Control licensed server.

For general licensing information, see the HP Insight Management Getting Started Guide, available at the following website:

http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement

Related products

Table 1 (page 11) lists HP products that are available for extending deployment or customizing the migrated server.

Table 1 Related products

Product

Description

 

 

HP Portable Images Network Tool (PINT) and HP Portable

Used to solve networking issues (specifically, NIC

Images Storage Assistant (PISA)

configuration issues) in moving operating system images

 

between HP BladeSystem c-Class blades using VMware

 

ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V (for PINT only) virtual machines,

 

and HP Virtual Connect on HP BladeSystem c-Class blades.

 

 

HP OpenView Change and Configuration Management

Automates the management of software such as operating

solutions

systems, applications, patches, content, and configuration

 

 

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