Owner's manual

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.............37
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..............................................................................................43
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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