Installing a New Media Server and Transferring the Media Server Role

installation of the media server software is one part of the story , transferring (or shifting the role ) is another part of it.
for installation part:which OS are you going to use as the base  of media server, if redhat is the OS, from top of my head I will tell you :
-you need to install libnsl library on it.
-when you are installing the setup file, it will have around dozens of critical and non critical checks, make sure all of them are passed.
-make sure you have added the master sever , IP and name to the hosts file and you are able to do name and IP ping with the master and vice verse.
-add the new media server name (FQDN and short name) to master server hostname (under additional servers and servers)

for second part, shifting the media server role to Media server, as Nicolai mentioned, just provide us more details about what is the role of your media server right now, Please do also mention if your current master/Media is a physical server or virtual server and the underlying storage will be shared with new media server or no.

Hi JimmyB2 

What storage unit types are we talking about here, disk, advanced disk, MSDP or tape ?

/Nicolai

Change the storage unit in policy and use the new media server's storage unit. Just keep the master's storage unit, in case of some emergency, that's all.