7 Preparing the destination server and deploying the destination agent..........

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Prerequisites......................................................................................................................

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Physical destination servers.............................................................................................

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Virtual machine hosts.....................................................................................................

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Linux destination size requirement........................................................................................

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Booting the destination server..............................................................................................

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

 

ProLiant Boot CD ISO for X2P migrations..........................................................................

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Booting a physical destination server automatically by using the migration wizard.................

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iLO boot prerequisites...............................................................................................

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Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server.................................................

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Prerequisites for manually creating and booting a destination virtual machine..................

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Prerequisites for booting a virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V.................................

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Prerequisites for VMware ESX migration..................................................................

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Manually creating and booting a virtual machine destination server for X2V....................

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Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server...........................................

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8 Migrating the servers............................................................................

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Prerequisites......................................................................................................................

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Minimum source server prerequisites for all migrations.......................................................

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Uploading drivers.....................................................................................................

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Preparing for a Windows server migration.......................................................................

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Windows source server prerequisites...........................................................................

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Source physical server prerequisites............................................................................

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Source virtual machine prerequisites...........................................................................

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Destination physical server prerequisites......................................................................

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Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites.....................................

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Preparing for a Linux server migration..............................................................................

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Source physical server prerequisites............................................................................

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Source virtual machine prerequisites...........................................................................

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Destination physical server prerequisites......................................................................

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Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites.....................................

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SAN migrations in Windows..........................................................................................

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Starting the migration wizard...............................................................................................

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Launching server migration by using the Deploy menu........................................................

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Launching server migration by using Quick Launch............................................................

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9 Postmigration tasks................................................................................

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Installing ProLiant Support Packs after migration.....................................................................

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Installing Service Pack for ProLiant after migration..................................................................

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X2P postmigration tasks (Windows)......................................................................................

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X2V postmigration tasks (Windows).....................................................................................

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

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X2P postmigration tasks (Linux)............................................................................................

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X2V postmigration tasks (Linux)............................................................................................

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Viewing migration logs.......................................................................................................

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Validating the migration.....................................................................................................

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Validating Linux migrations.............................................................................................

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Validating Windows migrations......................................................................................

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IV Troubleshooting and support.....................................................................

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10 Troubleshooting..................................................................................

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User interface....................................................................................................................

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Server migration wizard hangs........................................................................................

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Cause.....................................................................................................................

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Suggested action......................................................................................................

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