7 Preparing the destination server and deploying the destination agent

30

Prerequisites

30

Physical destination servers

30

Virtual machine hosts

30

Linux destination size requirement

30

Booting the destination server

31

Booting a physical destination server manually by using the Insight Control server migration

 

ProLiant Boot CD ISO for X2P migrations

31

Booting a physical destination server automatically by using the migration wizard

32

iLO boot prerequisites

32

Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server

32

Prerequisites for manually creating and booting a destination virtual machine

32

Prerequisites for booting a virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V

32

Prerequisites for VMware ESX migration

33

Manually creating and booting a virtual machine destination server for X2V

33

Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server

33

8 Migrating the servers

35

Prerequisites

35

Minimum source server prerequisites for all migrations

35

Uploading drivers

35

Preparing for a Windows server migration

36

Windows source server prerequisites

36

Source physical server prerequisites

36

Source virtual machine prerequisites

37

Destination physical server prerequisites

37

Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites

37

Preparing for a Linux server migration

37

Source physical server prerequisites

38

Source virtual machine prerequisites

38

Destination physical server prerequisites

38

Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites

39

SAN migrations in Windows

39

Starting the migration wizard

40

Launching server migration by using the Deploy menu

40

Launching server migration by using Quick Launch

41

9 Postmigration tasks

44

Installing ProLiant Support Packs after migration

44

Installing Service Pack for ProLiant after migration

44

X2P postmigration tasks (Windows)

44

X2V postmigration tasks (Windows)

45

Editing the Windows boot.ini file after migration (Windows Server 2003)

45

X2P postmigration tasks (Linux)

46

X2V postmigration tasks (Linux)

46

Viewing migration logs

47

Validating the migration

47

Validating Linux migrations

47

Validating Windows migrations

47

IV Troubleshooting and support

48

10 Troubleshooting

49

User interface

49

Server migration wizard hangs

49

Cause

49

Suggested action

49

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