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7 Preparing the destination server and deploying the destination agent..........30
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................30
Physical destination servers.............................................................................................30
Virtual machine hosts.....................................................................................................30
Linux destination size requirement........................................................................................30
Booting the destination server..............................................................................................31
Booting a physical destination server manually by using the Insight Control server migration
ProLiant Boot CD ISO for X2P migrations..........................................................................31
Booting a physical destination server automatically by using the migration wizard.................32
iLO boot prerequisites...............................................................................................32
Manually creating and booting a virtual destination server.................................................32
Prerequisites for manually creating and booting a destination virtual machine..................32
Prerequisites for booting a virtual machine in Microsoft Hyper-V.................................32
Prerequisites for VMware ESX migration..................................................................33
Manually creating and booting a virtual machine destination server for X2V....................33
Automatically creating and booting a virtual destination server...........................................33
8 Migrating the servers............................................................................35
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................35
Minimum source server prerequisites for all migrations.......................................................35
Uploading drivers.....................................................................................................35
Preparing for a Windows server migration.......................................................................36
Windows source server prerequisites...........................................................................36
Source physical server prerequisites............................................................................36
Source virtual machine prerequisites...........................................................................37
Destination physical server prerequisites......................................................................37
Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites.....................................37
Preparing for a Linux server migration..............................................................................37
Source physical server prerequisites............................................................................38
Source virtual machine prerequisites...........................................................................38
Destination physical server prerequisites......................................................................38
Destination virtual machine host or virtual machine prerequisites.....................................39
SAN migrations in Windows..........................................................................................39
Starting the migration wizard...............................................................................................40
Launching server migration by using the Deploy menu........................................................40
Launching server migration by using Quick Launch............................................................41
9 Postmigration tasks................................................................................44
Installing ProLiant Support Packs after migration.....................................................................44
Installing Service Pack for ProLiant after migration..................................................................44
X2P postmigration tasks (Windows)......................................................................................44
X2V postmigration tasks (Windows).....................................................................................45
Editing the Windows boot.ini file after migration (Windows Server 2003).................................45
X2P postmigration tasks (Linux)............................................................................................46
X2V postmigration tasks (Linux)............................................................................................46
Viewing migration logs.......................................................................................................47
Validating the migration.....................................................................................................47
Validating Linux migrations.............................................................................................47
Validating Windows migrations......................................................................................47
IV Troubleshooting and support.....................................................................48
10 Troubleshooting..................................................................................49
User interface....................................................................................................................49
Server migration wizard hangs........................................................................................49
Cause.....................................................................................................................49
Suggested action......................................................................................................49
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