As the title suggests I'm planning an upgrade and migration to new hardware:
Currently we have 1x EV Site with 4 servers, they are as follows:
KN-EVT1 + WB-EVT1
- EV 9.04
- Win 2003 32bit
- SAN Storage (EMC)
KN-EVT2 + WB-EVT2
- EV 9.04
- Win 2008R2 64bit
- SAN Storage (XIV)
I have 2x new servers that I wish to move the EVSite to (and also decomission the other servers).
KN-EVX1 + WB-EVX2
- EV 10.0.3 installed but not configured (vanilla)
- Win 2008R2 64bit
- SAN Storage (XIV)
Now I believe I can use the migration wizard in the EV10 install media to move my settings to the new servers but I'm a little unsure around the storage. I plan to reduce the current 4x servers to just the 2x new ones.
My plan at the moment is as follows:
This is to decomisson the EVT1 (32bit servers)
- Move all users and tasks from EVT1 servers to EVT2
- Move all EVT1 Partitions to EVT2 servers and re-point in settings
Migration and upgrade to new hardware
- Ready EV environment for migration (as per Symantec guide)
- Suspend Archiving and MSMQ queues
- Deploy EVX Servers (already completed)
- Run Migration tool on EVT-P0002 servers to create migration package
- Migrate EV vault stores (detach storage from EVT and present to EVX)
- Reconfigure EVT DNS alias to point to EVX
- Run Migration tool on EVX servers to import migration package
- Revert EV environmental changes made in stage 2
Would this work or am I missing something? My concern is around the storage as I have been allocated 5TB for each of the new EVX servers and would like to utilse it?
Apologies for the long post!