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durtynacho's avatar
durtynacho
Level 3
13 years ago

Multiple questions regarding EV migration/refresh

I am getting ready to upgrade EV 9.0.2 to version 10 while refreshing our entire environment, and wanted to run a few goals by everyone and obtain some feedback.   Current environment: EV 9.0.2...
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  • AWMorris's avatar
    AWMorris
    13 years ago

    The Server Settings Migration Wizard allows you to migrate from version 9 to version10.  Therefore there is no need to stand up another EV 9 server.  I would do the following

     

    1.  Build out a new EV 10 SP 1 server.

    2.  Run the SSMW on the version 9 server and create the export package.

    3.  Attach the LUN's to the new EV 10 SP 1 server.

    4.  Run the SSMW and import the configuration package.

     

    This way you can do your hardware refresh and upgrade at the same time.  All of the data would need to be made available to the EV 10 SP 1 server before importing the configuration.... IE, simply attach the LUN's to the new EV 10 server and then run the import.  I would suggest taking a look the following

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO42445

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John_Chisari
Level 6
13 years ago

when you say you vault stores are a mess, how are they in a mess?

I wouldn't even bother going down the move archive tool path for 10TB of data - how many archived items is this?, it will not only take a long time, possibly 6-12 months (and thats conservative) but it will cause all sorts of heartache and time to troubleshoot issues with it.

With your plan, you won't be able to add a EV10 server into a EV9 site - it won't work.

If you are looking at swift - I would possibly look at closing the existing partitions, open a new one on your x64 aggregate and have EV9 write use it.  Would also suggest stopping any storage expiry and deletions from archives so nothing will change in the closed partitions.

Then robocopy the closed partitions to the new x64 aggregate - or use SAN copy/replication if you can.

Build a EV10 environment and use the migration wizard to cut across to it.  Before you run the wizard on the EV10 server, move the LUN across to the new server and do a robocopy (SAN copy/replication would be best again) of the Indexes to the new x64 aggregate or wherever you are going to keep them.