HP Insight Foundation Software for ProLiant User Manual
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HP Insight Control Server Migration 7.3
Update 1 User Guide
Abstract
HP Insight Control server migration provides an automated, accurate, and affordable way to migrate existing servers to the
latest HP ProLiant server technologies or the latest virtualization platforms. This guide explains processes and procedures that
are not appropriate for the product's online help. The information in this guide is intended for users who have network
administrator–level access and knowledge.
HP Part Number: 461487-403
Published: March 2014
Edition: 1
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP Insight Control Server Migration 7.3 Update 1 User Guide
- Part I Overview and concepts
- Part II Premigration tasks
- Part III Migration
- 6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent
- Verifying Windows source server requirements
- Verifying Linux source server requirements
- Removing guest tools
- Choosing server migration Agents
- Deploying server migration Agents
- Manually running server migration Source Agents on the source server
- Detecting, stopping, or restarting a remotely deployed server migration Source Agent
- 7 Preparing the destination server and deploying the destination agent
- Prerequisites
- Linux destination size requirement
- Booting the destination server
- Booting a physical destination server manually by using the Insight Control server migration ProLiant Boot CD ISO for X2P migrations
- Booting a physical destination server automatically by using the migration wizard
- Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server
- Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server
- 8 Migrating the servers
- 9 Postmigration tasks
- Installing ProLiant Support Packs after migration
- Installing Service Pack for ProLiant after migration
- X2P postmigration tasks (Windows)
- X2V postmigration tasks (Windows)
- Editing the Windows boot.ini file after migration (Windows Server 2003)
- X2P postmigration tasks (Linux)
- X2V postmigration tasks (Linux)
- Viewing migration logs
- Validating the migration
- 6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent
- Part IV Troubleshooting and support
- 10 Troubleshooting
- User interface
- Server migration wizard hangs
- Browser displays an error after loading the server migration wizard from Systems Insight Manager
- Launching server migration from Systems Insight Manager throws an exception
- The name of HP Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331i-SPI Adapter is not displayed correctly
- Unable to launch server migration tools from Systems Insight Manager
- Static IP configuration fails on Hyper-V VM when configured using Boot CD
- Unable to migrate Windows 2008/2008 R2/2012 R2
- Source preparation
- Corrective action is required before this server can be migrated
- Source server identification fails
- Migration Agent deployment fails
- Linux Source Agent window does not appear on RHEL 64–bit
- Remote deployment of Linux Source Agent using nonroot credentials fails
- Incorrect LUN size is detected in step 2 of the migration wizard
- Migrating a source server fails with the Microsoft Hyper-V role enabled
- Destination preparation
- Destination server identification fails
- IP address configuration fails on a manually booted virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V for a P2V or V2V migration
- Kernel panic occurs in booting a virtual machine to the Insight Control server migration Virtual Machine Boot CD ISO
- Mouse does not work on a virtual machine booted with the Insight Control server migration Virtual Machine Boot CD ISO
- Primary array controller does not have logical drives defined
- Primary controller configured in the system does not have drives attached
- Primary controller in the system is not supported by this version of Insight Control server migration
- Destination server displays a blank screen when it boots to server migration Boot CD ISO
- Some storage volumes on the destination server are not available for selection
- Static IP address cannot be assigned on the destination server while booting using the Boot CD ISO
- Supported storage controllers display Unknown on the Boot CD ISO
- Automatic booting of the destination physical server fails
- Insight Control server migration might not detect virtual machines on mapped network drives
- Destination server does not boot even though the automatic booting option was chosen during X2P migrations
- Insight Control server migration stops responding during automatic booting of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine
- Application station fails to connect to the destination server when the server is automatically booted for an X2P migration
- Warning message is not displayed for an unsupported server when the server is started using the Insight Control server migration ProLiant Boot CD
- Microsoft Windows 2008 OS migration results in a blue screen error on destination server configured with NC551m FCoE card
- Migration process
- Drivers cannot be installed or injected onto a boot disk
- Migrating a Linux source server that has large storage fails when the migration is initiated
- Linux migration might fail when X Windows configuration is not properly formatted
- Partitions created with third-party partitioning tools do not show the proper file system type in the server migration wizard
- Migration hangs if the source server is shut down
- NTFS resize error message appears
- ReiserFS volumes are blocked for Linux migration
- Filesystem on source disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0, Partition 0 could not be resized during the migration
- Migration fails during the disk cloning phase
- Starting a new migration after a current migration is stopped
- Unrecoverable sector-read errors on the source server hard drive are not supported and fail a Windows P2P or P2V migration
- Source Agent fails to launch when source server reboots in migration agent mode
- Error occurs during data copy of Linux migration
- SAN-connected destination server displays a blue screen
- Out of memory error occurs on the application station during migration
- Destination server boots with an invalid IP address
- Windows server migration Source Agent or PINT remote deployment is intermittent and deployment fails with a General failure occurred error
- Unable to detect HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLR-SFP+ Adapter configured as iSCSI disk in step 5 of migration wizard
- Unable to install Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) on Windows Operating System after successful migration or Yellow bangs (!) are seen in the device manager on reboot.
- Postmigration
- Migration of Windows 2008 SP2 to Smart Array controllers, destination server results in blue screen error.
- Migration of Windows 2008 or Windows 2012 from Physical Server—> Physical Server—> Physical Server, results in blue screen error.
- Migration does not start after confirmation. The event log continuously displays Operation Migration waiting for connection to source
- Destination server mouse and keyboard do not work after a Windows migration
- USB mouse or keyboard drivers are not loaded after an X2P Windows migration
- Mouse does not work on the iLO of the destination server after a Linux X2P migration
- Mouse does not work on the destination ESX virtual machine after a V2V migration
- Drive letters are not the same in the migrated virtual machine guest after migration
- Drives do not appear on the migrated operating system
- Mouse and keyboard do not work after a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine is migrated to a ProLiant server
- Static IP address cannot be assigned on the destination server after migration
- Virtual machine hosts Integrated Components that are not installed on the destination virtual machine after migration
- Exclamation point (!) appears on the NIC adapter in Device Manager on the migrated virtual machine
- Network adapter in the destination ESX virtual machine is not initialized after a V2V migration
- Destination virtual machine fails to boot after X2V migration
- During editing of the settings of guest VMs created by server migration, an invalid OS ID warning appears
- Server is unresponsive during PSP installation
- Destination server still shows server migration UI but server migration wizard shows migration completed
- Operating system is not booting on a destination server that has SAN disks
- Post Migration of SLES 11 SP3 OS boot up takes long time on destination server with Brocade 82B or 41B or SN1000Q FC card
- Error is displayed for a missing file system while migrated Linux OS is booted on the destination server
- Logical drives of HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller are removed
- Unable to download the log files from the migration wizard when using IE 9
- Source server with SLES 11 SP2 x32 OS does not boot the operating system properly after successful migration
- RHEL version 6.3 (x64) operating system does not boot after migrating to HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i/B320i Controllers
- RHEL version 6.5 (x64) operating system does not boot up on Smart Array P712 after successful migration.
- RHEL version 6.3 (x64) operating system does not boot as destination after successful migration
- Failed discovery logs and IP address not discovered.
- Post migration, RHEL 6.2 32 bit takes twenty minutes to boot from HP CN1000Q Dual Port Converged Network Adapter
- B120i controller is displayed as Intel Lynx storage controller
- User interface
- 11 Support and other resources
- 12 Documentation feedback
- 10 Troubleshooting
- A Applying old server migration standalone licenses
- B Performing migrations in a Microsoft Cluster server environment
- C Logging server migration application service Logs into Windows NT Events
- Glossary
- Index