HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Software User Manual
Hp insight control server migration 7.0 user guide
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HP Insight Control Server Migration 7.0 User
Guide
Abstract
HP Insight Control server migration provides an automated, accurate and affordable way to migrate existing servers to the
latest 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 with network administrator-level
access and knowledge.
HP Part Number: 461487-008
Published: February 2012
Edition: 1
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP Insight Control Server Migration 7.0 User Guide
- Part I Overview and concepts
- Part II Pre-migration tasks
- Part III Migration
- 6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent
- Verifying Windows source server requirements
- Verifying Linux source server requirements
- Uninstalling guest tools
- Choosing server migration Agents
- Deploying server migration Agents
- Manually running server migration Source Agents on source servers
- 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 using the Insight Control server migration ProLiant Boot CD ISO for X2P migrations
- Booting a physical destination server automatically 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 Post-migration tasks
- Installing ProLiant Support Packs after migration
- X2P post-migration tasks (Windows)
- X2V post-migration tasks (Windows)
- Editing the Windows Boot.ini file after migration (Windows Server 2003)
- X2P post-migration tasks (Linux)
- X2V post-migration 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
- Source preparation
- Corrective action is required before this server can be migrated
- Source server identification fails
- Migration Agent deployment fails
- Server migration Source Agent deployment fails remotely from a Windows Server 2003 Application Station
- Linux Source Agent window does not appear on RHEL 64-bit
- Remote deployment of Linux Source Agent using non-root credentials fails
- Incorrect LUN size 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 a V2V migration
- Kernel panic occurs when 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 system is not supported by this version of Insight Control server migration
- The destination server displays a blank screen when booting 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
- Auto booting destination physical server fails
- Insight Control might not detect virtual machines on mapped network drives
- Destination server does not boot when automatic boot option was chosen during X2P migrations
- Insight Control server migration stops responding during auto-booting of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine
- Application station fails to connect to the destination server when the server is auto-booted for an X2P migration
- Warning message is not displayed for unsupported servers when 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 boot disk
- Large volumes fail with server thread error
- Migrating a Linux source server with very 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 proper file system type in the server migration wizard
- Migration hangs if source server is shut down
- NTFS resize error message
- ReiserFS volumes are blocked for Linux migration
- The File System on Source Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0, Partition 0 Could Not Be Resized During the Migration
- Migration fails during the disk cloning phase
- Failed: Drivers Could Not Be Injected Into Boot Disk in the logs
- 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 during data copy of Linux migration
- SAN-connected destination server displays 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 fails with Agent is already deployed or not required error
- Windows server migration Source Agent or PINT remote deployment is intermittent and deployment fails with General failure occurred error
- Post-migration
- 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 Not Loaded After a X2P Windows Migration
- Mouse does not work on the destination server's iLO 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 migrating a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine to a ProLiant server
- Static IP address cannot be assigned on the destination server after migration
- Virtual machine hosts Integrated Components do not install on the destination virtual machine following 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
- The destination virtual machine fail to boot after X2V migration
- While editing 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 up on the destination server with SAN disks
- Error displayed for missing file system while booting migrated Linux OS on the destination server
- Logical drives of HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller are removed
- 11 Support and other resources
- 10 Troubleshooting
- A Applying old server migration standalone licenses
- B Performing migrations in a Microsoft Cluster server environment
- Glossary
- Index