HP PART NUMBER: 461487-401A manual Contents

Contents
I Overview and concepts	10
1 Server migration introduction	11
Overview	11
Installing and configuring server migration software	11
Installing or upgrading server migration software	11
Licensing server migration	11
Related products	11
2 Server migration concepts	13
Server migration components	13
Overview of migrating a server	13
Migration checklist	13
HP Insight Control server migration software tabs	14
II Premigration tasks	16
3 Preparing hardware for migration	17
Verifying hardware and operating system support	17
Verifying system requirements for the application station	17
4 Planning the migration	18
Planning a migration strategy	18
Preparing a schedule	18
Considerations for multiboot systems	18
Migrating large NTFS partitions	18
Resizing file systems for migration	18
Resizing Windows file systems	18
Resizing Linux file systems	19
Manually disabling critical or hardware-dependent applications	19
5 Preparing software for migration	20
Verifying licenses for software to be migrated	20
Migration security	20
Disabling firewalls	20
Disabling antivirus software	21
Generating static or dynamic certificates	21
Installing ProLiant Support Packs	21
Installing Service Pack for ProLiant	21
III Migration	23
6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent	24
Verifying Windows source server requirements	24
Preparing a Microsoft Hyper-V source server	24
Verifying Linux source server requirements	24
Removing guest tools	25
Choosing server migration Agents	25
Deploying server migration Agents	25
Deploying Agents	25
Manually running server migration Source Agents on the source server	26
Deploying a Windows server migration Source Agent locally on the source server	26
Deploying a server migration Source Agent on domain controllers	28
Deploying the Linux server migration Source Agent locally on the source server	28
Detecting, stopping, or restarting a remotely deployed server migration Source Agent	29

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