I just migrated one of the three main NDS servers to new hardware this morning with the Migration Wizard from Novell. I've used this particular wizard since the NW5.1 days when I used it for a NW4.11 -> NW5.1 migration back at OldJob. It's great. I did it once before then for a NW4.11 -> NW4.11 migration, with the manual method. The TID for that was, I kid you not, 114 steps. This tool is da bomb.
And it went really quickly. Since these servers are JUST NDS with no file-serving on 'em, the bulk of the migration should have been moving the directory service files. Not counting staging up the new hardware, the start to finish time for the migration was about 60 minutes. And that included a bit of mop up that the dialog prompts made me go through.
The best part is that by using the MigWiz we moved the server's identity to the new hardware as well, it isn't just a brand new server that happens to have the same name as the old server. This saves us work since NDS is pretty infested with PKI these days, and its sensitive to things like that. MigWiz allows me to get away with not regenerating all the certificates and all the other PKI fun. Whee!
And it went really quickly. Since these servers are JUST NDS with no file-serving on 'em, the bulk of the migration should have been moving the directory service files. Not counting staging up the new hardware, the start to finish time for the migration was about 60 minutes. And that included a bit of mop up that the dialog prompts made me go through.
The best part is that by using the MigWiz we moved the server's identity to the new hardware as well, it isn't just a brand new server that happens to have the same name as the old server. This saves us work since NDS is pretty infested with PKI these days, and its sensitive to things like that. MigWiz allows me to get away with not regenerating all the certificates and all the other PKI fun. Whee!
If you had a XIOtech Magnitude, the hardest part would be unboxing the new server and plugging it in. Then you just repoint the LUNs to the new server from the old, and boot it up. Done. :)
Assuming boot-from-SAN, of course ;)
Of course. :)No reason not to boot from SAN. It's teh cool!