Hi
I have an aging physical EV server running EV11.0 on Windows 2008 R2. This server started it's life running everything on a single box including EV mailbox and journal archiving tasks and also SQL for the EV databases. As more users have now come on board, more messages through the journal and EV upgraded using 'in-place' upgrades, the fact that everything was on a single box was somehwat overlooked. It is now time to get rid of this server and move over to virtual machines. I want to take this opportunity to also go to Windows 2012 ready for EV12 upgrades in the future. Additionally everything was on local storage before, but now I want to move the archives to a NAS device and Indexes to a SAN array
I plan to create 3 Windows 2012 virtual machines one for EV SQL and one each for mailbox and journal archiving. My question is to ask if there is a logical order to migrate everything?
I've always used the migration wizard in the past as it works well and provides great flexibility in being able to relocate archives, indexes and SQL databases to different locations in a single go.... and it reduces user error compared to manual migration methods. But will the migration wizard work for an EV11 source server? I also may need to change the server name and also look to upgrade to EV11.0.1 CHF3.
Moving the EV SQL databases is fine and that's pretty easy to do - so I'm fine with that, but should I be looking at initially moving both the EV mailbox and journal tasks from the physical server to a single vm initially and then split the journal task out to a second vm afterwards, or perhaps split the journal task as the first step (onto one of the new vm's) and then move over the remaining mailbox task from the physical server to the second vm.
Journal and Mailbox tasks have their own vault stores but in a single VSG (shared in group) but they share index locations - I was plannig to close both the indexes and archive locations as part of this migration and open new ones in each location.
Additionally - and I'm not entirely sure of the impact of this, but at some point in the past, the EV server was changed to create an Index server group - just with this single server in it. I understand that this is a 'can't go back' operation, so how does this affect my need to split the journal task to a different EV server and move the mailbox task to a new EV server? Where should the indexes reside and should\must the new server be part of the same indexing group?
thanks