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9 Migrating existing physical or virtual servers to another

server

This chapter provides an overview of Insight Control server migration.

Server migration overview

Insight Control server migration makes it easy for you to upgrade or replace your existing server or to

implement virtualization. Server migration features enable you to replicate servers that are running correctly,

but might be under-performing or are over-provisioned, to a new physical or virtual server.

The server migration application enables you to perform Physical-to-ProLiant (P2P), Virtual-to-ProLiant (V2P),

Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), or Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migrations from a single integrated graphical user interface.

Migrations are supported from any x86 server (regardless of hardware vendor) to the latest HP ProLiant or

BladeSystem server technologies.

The source server is always available just the way it was running before the migration because no additional

drivers are installed on the source server. No modification to the source server ensures a consistent image

between the source and destination servers.

Migrations in a SAN environment, including migrations from direct attach storage to boot from SAN, are

supported.

Table 9-1 “Launching the server migration application” lists the server migration features and how to access

them.

Launching the server migration application

Table 9-1 Launching the server migration application

DescriptionFrom the CMS console management GUIFrom Windows

When you enter user credentials, the Insight

Server Migration software for ProLiant

application opens.

Click the HP Insight Control server

migration desktop icon

When you enter user credentials, the Insight

Server Migration software for ProLiant

application opens.

Start→All Programs→HP Insight

Software→HP Insight Control server

migration→HP Insight Control ser ver

migration

Provides the following options:

• Physical to ProLiant (P2P)... migrates a

physical machine to an HP ProLiant

machine.

• Physical to Virtual (P2V)... migrates a

physical machine to a virtual machine guest

within a virtual machine host.

• Virtual to ProLiant (V2P)... migrates a

virtual machine guest within a virtual

machine host to an HP ProLiant machine.

• Virtual to Virtual (V2V)... migrates a virtual

machine guest between virtualization layers.

Deploy→SMP Migration Tools

Deploys the server migration agent for P2x and

V2x migrations.

Deploy→Deploy Drivers, Firmware

and Agents→Install SMP agent

When you launch the Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant application from your Windows desktop,

you select the type of migration to perform, prepare the source and destination servers, select migration

options, and then use the server migration wizard to start the migration.

Basic server migration procedure

To perform an Insight Control server migration installation and migration, follow these steps:

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