8 migrating the servers, 9 post-migration tasks – HP Insight Control User Manual

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Uninstalling guest tools.......................................................................................................23
Choosing server migration agents........................................................................................23
Deploying server migration Agents.......................................................................................23

Deploying Agents..........................................................................................................23

Manually running server migration Source Agents on source servers.........................................24

Deploying a Windows server migration Source Agent locally on the source server.................24

Deploying a server migration Source Agent on domain controllers..................................25
Deploying a server migration Source Agent on a Microsoft Small Business Server.............25

Deploying the Linux server migration Source Agent locally on the source server.....................26

Detecting, stopping, or restarting a remotely deployed server migration Source Agent.................27

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 server migration Boot CD ISO for
X2P migrations.............................................................................................................29
Booting a physical destination server automatically using the migration wizard......................29

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............................................................................32

Prerequisites......................................................................................................................32

Minimum source server prerequisites for all migrations.......................................................32

Uploading drivers.....................................................................................................32

Preparing for a Windows server migration.......................................................................33

Windows source server prerequisites...........................................................................33
Source physical server prerequisites............................................................................33
Source virtual machine prerequisites...........................................................................33
Destination physical server prerequisites......................................................................33
Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites.....................................34

Preparing for a Linux server migration..............................................................................34

Source physical server prerequisites............................................................................34
Source virtual machine prerequisites...........................................................................34
Destination physical server prerequisites......................................................................35
Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites.....................................35

SAN migrations in Windows..........................................................................................35

Starting the migration wizard...............................................................................................36

Launching server migrations using the Deploy menu...........................................................36
Launching server migrations using Quick Launch...............................................................38

9 Post-migration tasks...............................................................................41

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

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