Moving archives to new server and storage
Hello there!
I am new to EV, so would really appreciate your help...
We are currently has 2-node file server clusters (Windows Server 2003) which are being archived using EV 7.0 SP5. The files are stored in a 2 Gbps FC SAN box, and the volume size is about 1.5 TB. This volume is getting full now, so we are going to build a new 2-node file cluster (Windows Server 2008 R2) and a new 8 Gbps FC SAN box with plenty of disk capacity.
The EV is doing the archiving using the file cluster's physical server names, however users are accessing files by using virtual server names which are different than the physical node names.
What is the best way to perform this move?
I found the following thread https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/move-file-servers but it's not clear to me yet. Hopefully someone can elaborate it further.
It seems the only way is using FSAUtlity tool, however in the above mentioned thread it was said that EV 2007 (7.5) does not support Windows Server 2008 R2 as the target, so my EV 7.0 most likely does not either. Does an upgrade to EV 8 or EV 9 required prior to the move?