Troubleshooting

Migrating Exchange 2010 To Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager Environment
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Create three AIM networks corresponding to three Exchange networks.
Configure AIM Networks
While creating the networks, we added persona to them, which essentially establishes network
connections between the persona and the AIM networks. Once AIM networks are created, they should
be configured as per the persona requirements. Update an existing network connection of a persona:
- Set NetBIOS over TCP to ‗default‘
- Register with DNS to ‗default‘
- Set IP address type: ‗Manually set to fixed IP‘
- Manually add the IP addresses intended for the network interfaces on the OS; the Exchange
iSCSI network will have to IP addresses added manually for MPIO
Update all the three network connections for both personas.
Boot up Persona and Install Agent
Once the persona and its networking are configured, it is ready to be started. Before staring the
persona ensure server on which the persona will be started has the correct number of NICs for the
channels configured with the persona networks. Since the persona is part of server pool, you can
specify a server or let AIM select one for you. In the latter case, make sure all the servers in the pool
are discovered with an appropriate number of NICs mapped to corresponding persona network
channels.
When personas boot up, install the AIM agent software by running the ‗setup_persona‘ executable
provided with the AIM software for Windows platform. The AIM agent communicates with the controller
about the persona states, and also configures virtual networking on Windows. On completion of the
agent installation, the persona will reboot.
Bring up Exchange services and mount the DB Copies on AIM managed Exchange Server
Once the exch-1 persona booted with agent is installed, Exchange databases can be redistributed as
before. Exchange database 1 active copy can be mounted back on persona exch-1 and Exchange
database 2 passive copy can be resumed. At this time one of the Exchange servers is SAN booted and is
managed by AIM while other Exchange server (exch-2) is local booted and is AIM agnostic.
Completing the Migration by Migrating Second Exchange 2010 server
At this point in migration, both the databases can be mounted on persona exch-1. The unmanaged
server exch-2 can now be migrated to the AIM environment in the same way as migration of exch-1.
Once exch-2 is completely migrated to AIM, the databases can be redistributed so that the database 2
primary copy is mounted on persona exch-2. The exchange deployment is now fully migrated.