HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
I Overview and concepts..............................................................................10
1 Server migration introduction..................................................................11
Overview..........................................................................................................................11
Installing and configuring server migration software...............................................................11
Installing or upgrading server migration software..............................................................11
Licensing server migration..............................................................................................11
Related products................................................................................................................11
2 Server migration concepts......................................................................13
Server migration components..............................................................................................13
Overview of migrating a server............................................................................................13
Migration checklist........................................................................................................13
HP Insight Control server migration software tabs...................................................................14
II Premigration tasks.....................................................................................16
3 Preparing hardware for migration...........................................................17
Verifying hardware and operating system support..................................................................17
Verifying system requirements for the application station..........................................................17
4 Planning the migration...........................................................................18
Planning a migration strategy..............................................................................................18
Preparing a schedule..........................................................................................................18
Considerations for multiboot systems.....................................................................................18
Migrating large NTFS partitions...........................................................................................18
Resizing file systems for migration........................................................................................18
Resizing Windows file systems........................................................................................18
Resizing Linux file systems...............................................................................................19
Manually disabling critical or hardware-dependent applications..............................................19
5 Preparing software for migration.............................................................20
Verifying licenses for software to be migrated........................................................................20
Migration security..............................................................................................................20
Disabling firewalls.........................................................................................................20
Disabling antivirus software............................................................................................21
Generating static or dynamic certificates..........................................................................21
Installing ProLiant Support Packs..........................................................................................21
Installing Service Pack for ProLiant........................................................................................22
III Migration................................................................................................23
6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent......................24
Verifying Windows source server requirements.......................................................................24
Preparing a Microsoft Hyper-V source server.....................................................................24
Verifying Linux source server requirements.............................................................................24
Removing guest tools..........................................................................................................25
Choosing server migration Agents........................................................................................25
Deploying server migration Agents.......................................................................................25
Deploying Agents..........................................................................................................25
Manually running server migration Source Agents on the source server.....................................26
Deploying a Windows server migration Source Agent locally on the source server.................26
Deploying a server migration Source Agent on domain controllers..................................28
Deploying the Linux server migration Source Agent locally on the source server.....................28
Detecting, stopping, or restarting a remotely deployed server migration Source Agent.................29
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