HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
I Overview and concepts................................................................................9
1 Server migration introduction..................................................................10
Overview..........................................................................................................................10
Installing and configuring server migration software...............................................................10
Installing or upgrading server migration software..............................................................10
Licensing server migration..............................................................................................10
Related products................................................................................................................10
2 Server migration concepts......................................................................12
Server migration components..............................................................................................12
Overview of migrating a server............................................................................................12
Migration checklist........................................................................................................12
HP Insight Control server migration software tabs...................................................................13
II Pre-migration tasks....................................................................................15
3 Preparing hardware for migration...........................................................16
Verifying hardware and operating system support..................................................................16
Verifying application station system requirements....................................................................16
4 Planning the migration...........................................................................17
Planning a migration strategy..............................................................................................17
Preparing a schedule..........................................................................................................17
Considerations for multi-boot systems....................................................................................17
Migrating Large NTFS Partitions...........................................................................................17
Resizing file systems for migration........................................................................................17
Resizing Windows file systems........................................................................................17
Resizing Linux file systems...............................................................................................18
Manually disabling critical or hardware-dependent applications..............................................18
5 Preparing software for migration.............................................................19
Verifying licenses for software to be migrated........................................................................19
Migration Security..............................................................................................................19
Disabling firewalls.........................................................................................................19
Disabling antivirus software............................................................................................20
Generating static or dynamic certificates..........................................................................20
Installing ProLiant Support Packs..........................................................................................20
III Migration................................................................................................21
6 Preparing the source server and deploying the Source Agent......................22
Verifying Windows source server requirements.......................................................................22
Preparing a Microsoft Hyper-V source server.....................................................................22
Verifying Linux source server requirements.............................................................................22
Uninstalling guest tools.......................................................................................................23
Choosing server migration Agents........................................................................................23
Deploying server migration Agents.......................................................................................23
Deploying Agents..........................................................................................................23
Manually running server migration Source Agents on source servers.........................................24
Deploying a Windows server migration Source Agent locally on the source server.................24
Deploying a server migration Source Agent on domain controllers..................................26
Deploying the Linux server migration Source Agent locally on the source server.....................26
Detecting, stopping, or restarting a remotely deployed server migration Source Agent.................27
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