3 Preparing hardware for migration

Verifying hardware and operating system support

Before you start any X2P (P2P or V2P) migration, verify the following:

The source server operating system is supported on the destination server. To verify OS support on ProLiant destination servers, see the following website:

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

For the supported hardware and software configurations of server migration, see HP Insight Management Support Matrix available at:

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

Remove unsupported storage and NIC controllers from the destination server before you perform a migration. Unsupported storage and NIC controllers can be added back on the destination server, with proper manual configuration, after a migration.

Verifying system requirements for the application station

The application station has the following prerequisites:

A supported Windows operating system running on physical hardware or as a Windows guest on a supported hypervisor. For a list of supported operating systems, and CMS hardware and software requirements and caveats, see HP Insight Management Support Matrix at the following website:

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

Microsoft iSCSI Initiator, which you can download and install from http://www.microsoft.com if it is not already available with the operating system on your application station.

Insight Control server migration installed on an NTFS partition.

Availability of ports 51124 and 51125 (or ports specified during Insight Control installation for agent communications and HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) booting).

Availability of port 51127.

User account credentials with administrative rights.

Free disk space of at least 300 MB per iLO boot, while booting a destination server for P2P and V2P.

The initial installation of Insight Control server migration can take 1 GB of storage space, and each automatically booted destination server will need at least 300 MB of storage space on the application station for non-Gen8 servers.

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