7 Preparing the destination server and deploying the destination agent

28

Prerequisites

28

Physical destination servers

28

Virtual machine hosts

28

Linux destination size requirement

28

Booting the destination server

29

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

 

ProLiant Boot CD ISO for X2P migrations

29

Booting a physical destination server automatically using the migration wizard

30

iLO boot prerequisites

30

Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server

30

Prerequisites for manually creating and booting a destination virtual machine

30

Prerequisites for booting a virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V

30

Prerequisites for VMware ESX migration

31

Manually creating and booting a virtual machine destination server for X2V

31

Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server

31

8 Migrating the servers

33

Prerequisites

33

Minimum source server prerequisites for all migrations

33

Uploading drivers

33

Preparing for a Windows server migration

34

Windows source server prerequisites

34

Source physical server prerequisites

34

Source virtual machine prerequisites

34

Destination physical server prerequisites

34

Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites

35

Preparing for a Linux server migration

35

Source physical server prerequisites

35

Source virtual machine prerequisites

36

Destination physical server prerequisites

36

Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites

36

SAN migrations in Windows

36

Starting the migration wizard

37

Launching server migrations using the Deploy menu

37

Launching server migrations using Quick Launch

39

9 Post-migration tasks

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Installing ProLiant Support Packs after migration

41

X2P post-migration tasks (Windows)

41

X2V post-migration tasks (Windows)

41

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

42

X2P post-migration tasks (Linux)

42

X2V post-migration tasks (Linux)

43

Viewing migration logs

43

Validating the migration

43

Validating Linux migrations

43

Validating Windows migrations

43

IV Troubleshooting and support

45

10 Troubleshooting

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User interface

46

Server migration wizard hangs

46

Cause

46

Suggested action

46

Browser displays error loading server migration wizard from Systems Insight Manager

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