User manual HP PROLIANT ESSENTIALS SERVER MIGRATION PACK-UNIVERSAL EDITION SW

[. . . ] HP Server Migration Pack ­ Universal Edition User Guide Part number 461487-002 Second edition March 2008 Legal notices © Copyright 2007, 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12. 211 and 12. 212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U. S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. [. . . ] Verify that the SMP Universal application station Windows operating system is configured for NTFS. 2. 3. 7. Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites 1. 4. If the virtual machine host is not embedded and supports COS, the SMP VM Hosts Agent must be deployed and running on the virtual machine host before you start the migration. If the virtual machine host is embedded and does not have COS, you must create a destination virtual machine and run the SMP Agent before you start the migration. Verify that the destination virtual machine host has sufficient system resources, including processor, memory, and disk space to host the migrated virtual machine guest. Temporarily disable any antivirus software autoscans on the destination virtual machine host to prevent interrupting the migration process. Re-enable the antivirus software after the migration. Performing a P2V migration CAUTION: If the SMP Universal application station shuts down or fails during any migration, then the migration being performed fails. Availability of application station during complete migration cycle is required for successful migration. 1. To start the P2V Migration Wizard, choose one of the following options: If performing a migration from a stand-alone SMP Universal application station: i ii From the desktop, access the SMP Universal Migration Wizard by clicking the SMP Universal application icon. From the Overview page, click the Migration Wizard tab. iii Click Physical to Virtual Migration (P2V), and then click Next. If you are performing a migration from HP SIM CMS, choose one of the following options: i ii To launch SMP using the HP SIM menu, select Deploy>SMP Migration Tools> Physical to Virtual (P2V), and then follow the instructions to launch SMP Migration Tools. To launch SMP using Quick Launch, select the proper source server or virtual machine in HP SIM, scroll over Quick Launch, and then select Physical to Virtual (P2V). Using SMP Universal for server migration 57 2. Enter the source server name or four-part IP address, and then select whether SMP Universal must deploy the SMP Source Agent on the source server. If this option is selected, you must provide the source server administrative credentials. Click Next. When you click Next and the Deploy Server Migration Pack Agent checkbox is selected, SMP Universal installs the SMP Source Agent on the source server. When you click Next and the Deploy Server Migration Pack Agent checkbox is not selected, an automatic check verifies if the SMP Source Agent is already running on the specified source server. 3. Select the volumes to be migrated. Volumes marked as active are selected by default. You cannot migrate or select unsupported file systems. The boot partition is always contained in an active volume. If only one active volume exists, then by default it contains the boot partition and cannot be cleared. If multiple active volumes exist, then verify that the volume containing the active boot partition (which contains the boot. ini, NTLDR, and NTDETECT. com files) is migrated to the target boot disk. Additional bootable partitions might be contained in other active volumes, but the partitions do not have to be migrated. The operating system must be stored on the boot disk and loaded using Windows NT Boot Loader (NTLDR). Using SMP Universal for server migration 58 Volumes on dynamic disks are migrated to partitions on basic disks. Volumes that span multiple dynamic disks (including spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID 5 volumes) are migrated to a single contiguous partition. Volumes stored on a common source disk must also be stored on a common destination disk. [. . . ] Each PSP includes setup and software maintenance tools designed to provide an efficient way to install, upgrade, and manage system software. In virtualization technology, hypervisor is a software program that manages multiple operating systems (or multiple instances of the same operating system) on a single computer system. The hypervisor manages the system's processor, memory, and other resources to allocate what each operating system requires. An older operating system, often incompatible with current hardware. [. . . ]