Enterprise Vault 10 Server Settings Migration Wizard?

There's a PDF in this TechNote, which explains some things:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO42445

- Target Server needs EV installed, but in UNCONFIGURED state (i.e. do not run configuration wizard after setup), EV 9.0.1 or later is supported as source and target.

- This process will not automatically move any data. Refer to Page 19 in the PDF "Migrating Enterprise Vault data".   You state you got SAN storage, so this applies to you:

SAN-based storage presents itself to servers as locally attached storage. If you use SAN storage, you must detach the storage from the source server and attach it to the target server.

- If your Servername is different, then you just point the DNS alias to the new Server. See Page 21 "Updating the DNS alias" and Page 8 "Enterprise Vault target server names"

Cheers

Michel

As Michel inferred, and the tool title itself, this is just for the Server Settings. It doesn't touch the physical data.

A basic workflow is:-

- Get the server in a condition to effectively decomission (all stated in the doc)

- Run the export which creates some files for the tool to use. Services are disabled (effectively making this server redundant). This gives you a report on what, if anything, needs to be performed (like making locations on the target, moving data or re-linking to the target server etc)

- Install, but DO NOT configure, the EV binaries on the target server

- Ensure that any storage locations, SQL etc are accessible from the target server and DNS is updated (again in the doc)

- Run the wizard and it should automatically detect that it's an unconfigured EV system and run in Import mode

- Point the wizard to the files made at the start

- Wizard completes. EV is back up and running.

It would be beneficial to read the documentation thoroughlly and also pay attention to the reports.

but it gives an error,i couldnt import.where is the failure?

I've not used the Migration Wizard yet, but it seems that it tries to "Export" here, so I guess you do not have a completely "unconfigured" system.
Remember, you just need to install EV, but you do not need to configure it (i.e. Set Directory SQL Server, Directory Computer and so on)

As stated, if you run this wizard on a CONFIGURED EV server, it will default to Export mode only. If you've got the target as unconfigured it will know and set the mode to Import.

i'm trying to read into K.G.'s original post and i think one of the questions he asked is if the source and target EV servers need the same version of the binaries.

No, they don't, Target must be same or higher.
However, keep in mind, if the target is higher, the server immediately starts the standard "Upgrade" process of EV. (Which results in: You have to upgrade your entire EV Infrastructure)

So this is actually the source server, and it fails while exporting?
Seems like the logfile is pretty useless here :)

The only thing I can think of is that there is maybe an Eventlog entry?

Probably best to open a case with Symantec...

Cheers
 

configured production server n 9.02.

there is no target server yet,just i want to see export file is created or not,but i seen that this screen,there is no error on log file but it shows an erorr and finished without creating export file.

in the log file it seems everything is succesfully checked,but wizard says that there are at least 1 failure but what is the failure? :)

i have some migration projects and i want to use this tool,and i want to try in my environment firstly.

(previous migration -DR senarios have more process manually,and more risk.)

are there anyone use this tool ,and finished migration sucesfully?