HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Software - Manual (Page 4)

7 Preparing the destination server and deploying the destination agent..........28
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................28
Physical destination servers.............................................................................................28
Virtual machine hosts.....................................................................................................28
Linux destination size requirement........................................................................................28
Booting the destination server..............................................................................................29
Booting a physical destination server manually using the Insight Control server migration
ProLiant Boot CD ISO for X2P migrations..........................................................................29
Booting a physical destination server automatically using the migration wizard......................30
iLO boot prerequisites...............................................................................................30
Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server.................................................30
Prerequisites for manually creating and booting a destination virtual machine..................30
Prerequisites for booting a virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V.................................30
Prerequisites for VMware ESX migration..................................................................31
Manually creating and booting a virtual machine destination server for X2V....................31
Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server...........................................31
8 Migrating the servers............................................................................33
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................33
Minimum source server prerequisites for all migrations.......................................................33
Uploading drivers.....................................................................................................33
Preparing for a Windows server migration.......................................................................34
Windows source server prerequisites...........................................................................34
Source physical server prerequisites............................................................................34
Source virtual machine prerequisites...........................................................................34
Destination physical server prerequisites......................................................................34
Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites.....................................35
Preparing for a Linux server migration..............................................................................35
Source physical server prerequisites............................................................................35
Source virtual machine prerequisites...........................................................................36
Destination physical server prerequisites......................................................................36
Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites.....................................36
SAN migrations in Windows..........................................................................................36
Starting the migration wizard...............................................................................................37
Launching server migrations using the Deploy menu...........................................................37
Launching server migrations using Quick Launch...............................................................39
9 Post-migration tasks...............................................................................41
Installing ProLiant Support Packs after migration.....................................................................41
X2P post-migration tasks (Windows).....................................................................................41
X2V post-migration tasks (Windows).....................................................................................41
Editing the Windows Boot.ini file after migration (Windows Server 2003).................................42
X2P post-migration tasks (Linux)............................................................................................42
X2V post-migration tasks (Linux)...........................................................................................43
Viewing migration logs.......................................................................................................43
Validating the migration.....................................................................................................43
Validating Linux migrations.............................................................................................43
Validating Windows migrations......................................................................................43
IV Troubleshooting and support.....................................................................45
10 Troubleshooting..................................................................................46
User interface....................................................................................................................46
Server migration wizard hangs........................................................................................46
Cause.....................................................................................................................46
Suggested action......................................................................................................46
Browser displays error loading server migration wizard from Systems Insight Manager...........46
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