Document Outline

• HP Insight Control Server Migration 7.1 User Guide
• Part I Overview and concepts
  • 1 Server migration introduction
    • Overview
    • Installing and configuring server migration software
      • Installing or upgrading server migration software
      • Licensing server migration
    • Related products
  • 2 Server migration concepts
    • Server migration components
    • Overview of migrating a server
      • Migration checklist
    • HP Insight Control server migration software tabs
• Part II Premigration tasks
  • 3 Preparing hardware for migration
    • Verifying hardware and operating system support
    • Verifying system requirements for the application station
  • 4 Planning the migration
    • Planning a migration strategy
    • Preparing a schedule
    • Considerations for multiboot systems
    • Migrating large NTFS partitions
    • Resizing file systems for migration
      • Resizing Windows file systems
      • Resizing Linux file systems
    • Manually disabling critical or hardware-dependent applications
  • 5 Preparing software for migration
    • Verifying licenses for software to be migrated
    • Migration security
      • Disabling firewalls
      • Disabling antivirus software
      • Generating static or dynamic certificates
    • Installing ProLiant Support Packs
• Part III Migration
  • 6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent
    • Verifying Windows source server requirements
      • Preparing a Microsoft Hyper-V source server
    • Verifying Linux source server requirements
    • Removing guest tools
    • Choosing server migration Agents
    • Deploying server migration Agents
      • Deploying Agents
    • Manually running server migration Source Agents on the source server
      • Deploying a Windows server migration Source Agent locally on the source server
        • Deploying a server migration Source Agent on domain controllers
      • Deploying the Linux server migration Source Agent locally 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
      • Physical destination servers
      • Virtual machine hosts
    • 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
        • iLO boot prerequisites
      • Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server
        • Prerequisites for manually creating and booting a destination virtual machine
          • Prerequisites for booting a virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V
          • Prerequisites for VMware ESX migration
        • Manually creating and booting a virtual machine destination server for X2V
      • Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server
  • 8 Migrating the servers
    • Prerequisites
      • Minimum source server prerequisites for all migrations
        • Uploading drivers
      • Preparing for a Windows server migration
        • Windows source server prerequisites
        • Source physical server prerequisites
        • Source virtual machine prerequisites
        • Destination physical server prerequisites
        • Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites
      • Preparing for a Linux server migration
        • Source physical server prerequisites
        • Source virtual machine prerequisites
        • Destination physical server prerequisites
        • Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites
      • SAN migrations in Windows
    • Starting the migration wizard
      • Launching server migration by using the Deploy menu
      • Launching server migration by using Quick Launch
  • 9 Postmigration tasks
    • Installing ProLiant Support Packs 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
      • Validating Linux migrations
      • Validating Windows migrations
• Part IV Troubleshooting and support
  • 10 Troubleshooting
    • User interface
      • Server migration wizard hangs
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Browser displays an error after loading the server migration wizard from Systems Insight Manager
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Launching server migration from Systems Insight Manager throws an exception
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Warning message is displayed for RHEL 6.3 in Step 2 of the migration wizard
        • Suggested action
      • The name of HP Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331i-SPI Adapter is not displayed correctly
        • Suggested action
    • Source preparation
      • Corrective action is required before this server can be migrated
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Source server identification fails
        • Suggested action
      • Migration Agent deployment fails
        • Suggested action
      • Server migration Source Agent deployment fails remotely from a Windows Server 2003 Application Station
        • Suggested action
      • Linux Source Agent window does not appear on RHEL 64–bit
        • Suggested action
      • Remote deployment of Linux Source Agent using nonroot credentials fails
        • Suggested action
        • Manual installation of Linux Source Agent using sudo user privileges fails
          • Suggested action
      • Incorrect LUN size is detected in step 2 of the migration wizard
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Migrating a source server fails with the Microsoft Hyper-V role enabled
        • Suggested action
    • Destination preparation
      • Destination server identification fails
        • Suggested action
      • IP address configuration fails on a manually booted virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V for a P2V or V2V migration
        • Suggested action
      • Kernel panic occurs in booting a virtual machine to the Insight Control server migration Virtual Machine Boot CD ISO
        • Suggested action
      • Mouse does not work on a virtual machine booted with the Insight Control server migration Virtual Machine Boot CD ISO
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Primary array controller does not have logical drives defined
        • Suggested action
      • Primary controller configured in the system does not have drives attached
        • Suggested action
      • Primary controller in the system is not supported by this version of Insight Control server migration
        • Suggested action
      • Destination server displays a blank screen when it boots to server migration Boot CD ISO
        • Suggested action
      • Some storage volumes on the destination server are not available for selection
        • Suggested action
      • Static IP address cannot be assigned on the destination server while booting using the Boot CD ISO
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Supported storage controllers display Unknown on the Boot CD ISO
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Automatic booting of the destination physical server fails
        • Suggested action
      • Insight Control might not detect virtual machines on mapped network drives
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Destination server does not boot even though the automatic booting option was chosen during X2P migrations
        • Suggested action
      • Insight Control server migration stops responding during automatic booting of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine
        • Suggested action
      • Application station fails to connect to the destination server when the server is automatically booted for an X2P migration
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Warning message is not displayed for an unsupported server when the server is started using the Insight Control server migration ProLiant Boot CD
        • Suggested action
      • Microsoft Windows 2008 OS migration results in a blue screen error on destination server configured with NC551m FCoE card
        • Suggested action
    • Migration process
      • Drivers cannot be installed or injected onto a boot disk
        • Suggested action
      • Large volumes fail with a server thread error
        • Suggested action
      • Migrating a Linux source server that has large storage fails when the migration is initiated
        • Suggested action
      • Linux migration might fail when X Windows configuration is not properly formatted
        • Suggested action
      • Partitions created with third-party partitioning tools do not show the proper file system type in the server migration wizard
        • Suggested action
      • Migration hangs if the source server is shut down
        • Suggested action
      • NTFS resize error message appears
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • ReiserFS volumes are blocked for Linux migration
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Filesystem on source disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0, Partition 0 could not be resized during the migration
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Migration fails during the disk cloning phase
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Failed: Drivers could Not Be Injected Into Boot Disk in the logs
        • Suggested action
      • Starting a new migration after a current migration is stopped
        • Suggested action
      • Unrecoverable sector-read errors on the source server hard drive are not supported and fail a Windows P2P or P2V migration
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Source Agent fails to launch when source server reboots in migration agent mode
        • Suggested action
      • Error occurs during data copy of Linux migration
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • SAN-connected destination server displays a blue screen
        • Suggested action
      • Out of memory error occurs on the application station during migration
        • Suggested action
      • Destination server boots with an invalid IP address
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Windows server migration Source Agent or PINT remote deployment is intermittent and deployment fails with a General failure occurred error
        • Suggested action
      • Unable to detect HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLR-SFP+ Adapter configured as iSCSI disk in step 5 of migration wizard
        • Suggested action
      • HP Smart Array B320i controller name is not displayed
        • Suggested action
      • Migration of supported Linux OS to HP ProLiant SL4545 G7 server fails
        • Suggested action
      • Unable to upload Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) ISOs to the Upload Drivers tab of the Migration wizard and unable to install SPP in an automated way as part of the migration workflow.
        • Suggested action
    • Postmigration
      • Migration does not start after confirmation. The event log continuously displays Operation Migration waiting for connection to source
        • Suggested action
      • Destination server mouse and keyboard do not work after a Windows migration
        • Suggested action
      • USB mouse or keyboard drivers are not loaded after an X2P Windows migration
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • Mouse does not work on the iLO of the destination server after a Linux X2P migration
        • Suggested action
      • Mouse does not work on the destination ESX virtual machine after a V2V migration
        • Suggested action
      • Drive letters are not the same in the migrated virtual machine guest after migration
        • Suggested action
      • Drives do not appear on the migrated operating system
        • Suggested action
      • Mouse and keyboard do not work after a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine is migrated to a ProLiant server
        • Suggested action
      • Static IP address cannot be assigned on the destination server after migration
        • Suggested action
      • Virtual machine hosts Integrated Components that are not installed on the destination virtual machine after migration
        • Suggested action
      • Exclamation point (!) appears on the NIC adapter in Device Manager on the migrated virtual machine
        • Suggested action
      • Network adapter in the destination ESX virtual machine is not initialized after a V2V migration
        • Suggested action
      • Destination virtual machine fails to boot after X2V migration
        • Cause
        • Suggested action
      • During editing of the settings of guest VMs created by server migration, an invalid OS ID warning appears
        • Suggested action
      • Server is unresponsive during PSP installation
        • Suggested action
      • Destination server still shows server migration UI but server migration wizard shows migration completed
        • Suggested action
      • Operating system is not booting on a destination server that has SAN disks
        • Suggested action
      • Error is displayed for a missing file system while migrated Linux OS is booted on the destination server
        • Suggested action
      • Logical drives of HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller are removed
        • Suggested action
      • Unable to download the log files from the migration wizard when using IE 9
        • Suggested action
      • Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SP1 does not boot on ProLiant BL420c Gen8 with Emulex LPe1205A FC storage controller.
        • Suggested action
      • Source server with SLES 11 SP2 x32 OS does not boot the operating system properly after successful migration
        • Suggested action
      • RHEL version 6.3 (x64) operating system does not boot after migrating to HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i/B320i Controllers
        • Suggested action
      • RHEL version 6.3 (x64) operating system does not boot as destination after successful migration
        • Suggested action
  • 11 Support and other resources
    • Information to collect before contacting HP
    • How to contact HP
    • Registering for software technical support and update service
      • How to use your software technical support and update service
      • Warranty information
    • HP authorized resellers
    • Documentation feedback
    • Related information
      • Documents
      • Websites
      • Related documentation
    • Typographic conventions
• A Applying old server migration standalone licenses
• B Performing migrations in a Microsoft Cluster server environment
  • Premigration consideration steps for clusters
  • Performing the migration
  • Post migration considerations and steps
• Glossary
• Index