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8 migrating the servers – HP Insight Control User Manual

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Preparing a Microsoft Hyper-V source server...........................................................................31

Verifying Linux source server requirements...................................................................................31
Uninstalling guest tools...................................................................................................................31
Choosing server migration agents...................................................................................................32
Deploying server migration Source Agents....................................................................................32

Deploying Source Agents...........................................................................................................32

Manually running server migration Source Agents on source servers...........................................32

Deploying a Windows server migration Source Agent locally on the source server................32

Deploying a server migration Source Agent on domain controllers....................................34
Deploying a server migration Source Agent on a Microsoft Small Business Server............35

Deploying the Linux server migration Source Agent locally on the source server...................35

Detecting, stopping, or restarting a remotely deployed server migration Source Agent...............36

7 Preparing the destination server and deploying the destination agent

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Prerequisites....................................................................................................................................37

Physical destination servers.......................................................................................................37
Virtual server hosts....................................................................................................................37

Linux destination size requirement.................................................................................................37
Booting the destination server.........................................................................................................38

Booting a physical destination server using the server migration Boot CD ISO for X2P
migrations...................................................................................................................................38
Booting a physical destination server automatically using the migration wizard....................38

iLO boot prerequisites..........................................................................................................39

Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server.....................................................39

Prerequisites for manually creating and booting a destination virtual server.....................39

Prerequisites for booting a virtual server in Microsoft Hyper-V....................................39
Prerequisites for VMware ESX migration.......................................................................40
Prerequisites Citrix XenServer migration........................................................................40

Manually creating and booting a virtual server destination server for P2V and V2V.........40

Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server..............................................40

8 Migrating the servers

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Prerequisites....................................................................................................................................43

Minimum source server prerequisites for all migrations..........................................................43

Uploading drivers.................................................................................................................43

Preparing for a Windows server migration...............................................................................43

Windows source server prerequisites...................................................................................43
Source physical server prerequisites....................................................................................44
Source virtual server prerequisites.......................................................................................44
Destination physical server prerequisites.............................................................................44
Destination virtual server host or virtual server prerequisites............................................44

Preparing for a Linux server migration.....................................................................................45

Source physical server prerequisites....................................................................................45
Source virtual server prerequisites.......................................................................................45
Destination physical server prerequisites.............................................................................45
Destination virtual server host or virtual server prerequisites............................................45

SAN migrations in Windows.....................................................................................................46

Starting the migration wizard.........................................................................................................46

Launching server migrations through Systems Insight Manager.............................................46
Launching server migrations through Quick Launch...............................................................48
Launching server migrations outside of Systems Insight Manager..........................................50

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