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SolarP's avatar
SolarP
Level 6
6 years ago

Server Migration Wizard to move domain

Hi All

I am pretty sure I know what the answer is going to be but just interested to see if anyone has tried it.

I have a customer on EV 10 and want to to go to EV 12.

Original plan was to upgrade EV 10 to EV 11 and use the EV 12 server migration wizard to move to new Windows 2012 R2 servers. Now they say that they would also like to have the new servers in another domain of the same forest.

So the question is can the server migration wizard migrate to new servers in another domain?

Or do you have to perform the migration and then use the standard Veritas domain move document to move move to the new domain.

Thanks

 

SP

 

  • CConsult's avatar
    CConsult
    6 years ago

    Hi SolarP,

    I would not advice to move it this way, you will have to go through several steps within a domain move.

    There also is a Veritas document for this one.

    I would first upgrade to 11.0.1 then 12.X on the same machine and after this follow the domain migration document (sorry I could not find it right now)

    What about the SQL database will it move too?

     

  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    6 years ago

    Hello,

    The move to other domain document is HERE

    I advise to do one ot the other first, i.e. first upgrade, then move, or move, then upgrade.

    I have done the move 8 times in the last 7 months, no issues.

  • CConsult's avatar
    CConsult
    Moderator
    6 years ago

    Hi SolarP,

    I would not advice to move it this way, you will have to go through several steps within a domain move.

    There also is a Veritas document for this one.

    I would first upgrade to 11.0.1 then 12.X on the same machine and after this follow the domain migration document (sorry I could not find it right now)

    What about the SQL database will it move too?

     

    • GertjanA's avatar
      GertjanA
      Moderator
      6 years ago

      Hello,

      The move to other domain document is HERE

      I advise to do one ot the other first, i.e. first upgrade, then move, or move, then upgrade.

      I have done the move 8 times in the last 7 months, no issues.

      • SolarP's avatar
        SolarP
        Level 6
        6 years ago

        Thanks for the reply Gertjan

        Yes I found the link but the link to the document does not work for moving domains.

        Fortunately I had a copy on my laptop already. I assume that the process is the same for EV 12 as its a bit of an old document now.

         

        Regards

        Sp

    • SolarP's avatar
      SolarP
      Level 6
      6 years ago

      Thanks for the reply

      They are on Windows 2008 R2 so I will have to upgrade to EV 11 and then perform the server migration wizard move to new hardware in the same domain for EV 12. Then when we perform the move to a new domain they will be on a fully supoorted version.

      Yes SQL will also have to move, currently on SQL 2005. I am getting them to build a new SQL 2012 server which we will move the database to, but I guess that will need to move to the new domain also. Unless we can build the new SQL server in the new domain. When EV 12 has been upgraded they can then move the databases to a more modern version of SQL.

      Regards

      Sp