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42 Brocade Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide

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Pre-migration requirements

Before you install IBM Network Advisor, make sure you meet the following pre-migration

requirements.

• Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation. For specific system

requirements, refer to

“System requirements” on page 1.

• Check for and install the latest Java patches for your operating system. For the current

supported JRE version for Network Advisor and Web Tools, refer to the Release Notes. For the

web site listing patch information, go to

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.

• Make sure that you fully back up your current Management application data on your

management server.

• Make sure you close all instances of the application before migrating.

• Make sure to install IBM Network Advisor on the same system as your current Management

application.

• If you are migrating within the same release, make sure to partially uninstall (refer to

“Uninstallation” on page 53) the application.

• Partial data migration is not supported from pre-12.0.0 releases. If you are migrating data from

a partially uninstalled source, complete the following steps:

1. Re-install your current IBM Network Advisor version on the same machine and migrate the

partially uninstalled data.

If your current release is pre-11.1.X, you must migrate to IBM Network Advisor 11.1.0 or

later. Refer to

Table 11 on page 45 for the release migration path.

2. Install IBM Network Advisor 12.1 (refer to “Installation” on page 1) on the same machine

and migrate your data (refer to “Migrating data” on page 46).

Pre-migration requirements when migrating from

one server to another

If you are migrating from IBM Network Advisor 12.0.X, 12.1.X, or 12.3.X on a 32-bit Windows server

to IBM Network Advisor 12.3.3 on a 64-bit Windows server, complete the following steps.

1. Take server backup for 12.0.X, 12.1.X, or 12.3.X using Options > Server Backup on the 32-bit

Windows server.

2. Install IBM Network Advisor 12.0.X, 12.1.X, or 12.3.X on the 64-bit Windows server.

3. Select SMC > Restore tab to restore the backup taken on the 32-bit Windows server.

4. Install IBM Network Advisor 12.3.3 on the 64-bit Windows server.

Perform seamless migration to IBM Network Advisor 12.3.3 (refer to “Migrating data” on

page 46).

If you are migrating from a pre-12.0.X release on a 32-bit Windows server to IBM Network Advisor

12.3.3 on a 64-bit Windows server, complete the following steps.

1. Install and migrate to IBM Network Advisor 12.0.X, 12.1.X, or 12.3.X in the same machine

(refer to

“Supported migration paths” on page 40).

2. Take server backup using Options > Server Backup on the 32-bit Windows server.