Cluster File Server Migration

Dears,
I have my source cluster based on WIndows 2008 R2 with SP1, and my new target cluster is Windows 2012 R2.
when I run the copy wizard it validate if I can migrate the file server, however, it is giving me those in yellow mark:
File Server IP Address is not eligible to be copied. (Failed to read 'EnableDhcp' property)
FileServer01 is not eligible to be copied.
Is this normal?
How to continue migrating file server role?

Hi Jean M,
Could you try to manually configure the IPs by referring to the previous 2008 R2 node, then and bring the new file-servers online?
More related information:
Best practices for migration of cluster windows 2008 R2 / 2012 - As melhores Praticas para migrar um Cluster de Windows 2008 para Windows 2012
http://blogs.technet.com/b/hugofe/archive/2012/12/06/best-practices-for-migration-of-cluster-windows-2008-r2-2012-as-melhores-praticas-para-migrar-um-cluster-de-windows-2008-para-windows-2012.aspx
How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with the Cluster Migration Wizard
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/06/25/10323434.aspx
Migration Paths for Migrating to a Failover Cluster Running Windows Server 2012 R2
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn530781.aspx
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Migrating single file server to failover cluster file server

Hi,
Currently we have one file server which is our Domain controller also. File Server data stored in SAN storage lun. Users home folders also resides at file server.Now we want to create 2 node failover cluster file server.
Questions:
1)Can we assign same storage lun to failover cluster?
2)Do we need to assign all permissions and storage quota again?
What is the best option to achieve this goal.

Hi,
if you attach the same LUN to the failover cluster the NTFS permission (security tab) are retained because they are stored in the LUN itself
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Windows 2012 Failover Cluster - File server role (vCO)

Hi,
I wonder if anybody can shed some light on a query i have.
A windows 2012 failover cluster will be built in AD domain example.uk. Cluster File server roles will be created and will reside in this domain also.
We also have a requirement to run a cluster file server role in the child domain off secure.example.uk. Is this possible? or do the file server roles and related vCO's have to reside in the same domain as the cluster (CNO).
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Hi Mark,
By default CNO will create
VCO automatically in default domain computer OU, we generally use the
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File server migration with Offline files involved

Hi,
We are planning a file server migration in following weeks.
This morning, our customer came with the good old "Ow, and I just thought about something else"
Here's the scenario :
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-That network drive is made offline available for all laptop users
-Those users are spread out in several country's. No VPN connection
-They are working for months on their offline network drive, right in the middle of the wood, no internet connection, it was already short for them to find power supply for their laptop ...
...nevermind
-The day they come back to the office, the file server to which points the network drives will be offline.
Now the 1 Million question : What happens with their "dirty" files ?
yep exactly. those they changed 6 months ago, have no clue about if you ask them but certainly will the day I will clear the damn cache.
My first analysis :
-The new file server will have another name, no alias or re-using the old name is possible (the customer don't want to)
-I can't tell to those laptops "hey for that offline cache, please use this new network drive"
So :
>> Those users have to identify manually files they changed while being offline, copy them locally on their machine and work that way the time they come back to the main office.
>> When they finally show up, clear the cache, offline the new network drive and replace file copied locally
>> If no internet connexion available in the branch office, let them work locally, it's still better than this hybrid-non-sense 6month offline folder "solution". If internet connexion is mainly available remotely, propose some Citrix/View/RDS
Setup which is, for me, a more professional looking solution
Someone has another (better?) idea/solution ?

Hi,
I suggest you ask users to collect their laptop to internet, then start offline files synchronization on the old file server. After that, use
Robocopy to copy the date from the old server to the new server. As the offline files cache cannot be recognized by the new file server, so we need to synchronize data first.
If the older server cannot be enabled, as you mentioned, you might need to ask users to copy their changed files to the new file servers.
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File Server Migration Source and Target Data Validation

Does anyone know of a power shell script/CLI command or some other way to verify source and target data after a file server migration? I want to make sure that the shares that are migrated from the source and target are an exact match. Thank
you.

Hi,
An example is provided in this article:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/10/08/easily-compare-two-folders-by-using-powershell.aspx
$fso = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path C:\fso
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And actually Robocopy could also do this job with /L and /log:file parameter.
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File Server Migration from 2008 Standard to 2012 Standard accross different subnet

Hi
Im going to migrate File server from Windows 2008 Standard server to Windows 2012 Standard . Source and Destination Servers are on different subnets . According to this
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj863566.aspx I cannot use Server migrations tool in-built into 2012 . Im not sure if I can use file server migration toolkit 1.2?.
Also my Domain controllers are mixture of Windows 2003, 2008 , 2008 R2 and I've upgraded the schema level to 2012 R2 . Is there anything else I need to be aware of ?
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Only reason I don't want to use Robocopy to this is because If I miss a small setting etc then I will face unwanted downtime.
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mumtaz

Hi mumtaz,
We could use file server migration toolkit 1.2 to migrate file server between the two subnets. In order to maintain security settings after the migration, please ensure the security of files and folders after they are migrated to a target file server, the File
Server Migration Wizard applies permissions that are the same as or more restrictive than they were on the source files and folders, depending on the option you select.
In the meantime, quota cannot migrate by this tool but we can export and import the quota using dirquota command. Export the templates as xml and then import to new server:
dirquota template export /file:C:\test.xml
dirquota template import /file:C:\test.xml
For more detailed information, please see:
Template Export and Import Scenarios
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730873(WS.10).aspx
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File Server Migration - For ORG A Forest to ORG B Forest ( Need to create and Map Security Group automatically on new Migrated Folders - Please Help

I have two forest With Trust works Fine .
I have file server in ORG – A ( Forest ) with 2003 R2 Standard
I have a File server in ORG - B ( Forest ) With Windows server 2012 ( New Server for Migration )
I have 1000 + folders with each different permission sets on ORG-A. We are using Security groups for providing permission on the share Folders on ORG A
I need to Migrate all the folders from ORG – A to ORG – B.
I am looking for an automated method of creating Security Groups on AD during the Migration, Once the Migration is Done, I can add the required users to the security groups manually.
Example.
Folder 1 on ORG – A has Security Group Called SEC-FOLDER1-ORGA
I need an automated method of Copying the files to ORG – B and Creating a new security Groups on ORG –B Forest with the same permission on parent and child Folders. I shall Add the users manually to the Group.
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Hi,
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Failover cluster File Server role best practices

We recently implemented a Hyper-V Server Core 2012 R2 cluster with the sole purpose to run our server environment. I started with our file servers and decided to create multiple file servers and put them in a cluster for high
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Server cluster and removed this extra virtual layer.
I'm reaching out to this community to see if there are any best practices on using the File Server role. Are there any benefits to having a guest cluster provide file shares? Or am I making things overly complicated for no reason?
Just to be clear, I'm just trying to make a simple Windows file server with folder shares that have security enabled on them for users to access internally. I'm using Hyper-V Core server 2012 R2 on my physical servers and right now I have Windows
Server Standard 2012 R2 on the VMs in the guest cluster.
Thanks for any information you can provide.

Hi,
Generally with Hyper-V VMs available, we will install all roles into virtual machines as that will be easy for management purpose.
In your situation the host system is a server core, so it seems that manage file shares with a GUI is much better.
I cannot find an article specifically regarding "best practices of setting up failover cluster". Here are 2 articles regarding build guest cluster (you have already done) and steps to create a file server cluster.
Hyper-V Guest Clustering Step-by-Step Guide
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mghazai/archive/2009/12/12/hyper-v-guest-clustering-step-by-step-guide.aspx
Failover Cluster Step-by-Step Guide: Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844(v=ws.10).aspx
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Windows 2008 R2 Multi-Site (geo) Cluster File Server

We need to come up with a new HA file server (user drive data) solution complete with DR. It needs to be 2008 R2, cater for about 25TB of data, and be suitable for 500 users (nothing high end on I/O). I don't want to rely on DFS for any form of resilience
due to its limitations for open files. We have two active-active data centers (a third can be used for file share quorum).
We could entertain:
1)
Site1 - 2 x HP ProLiants with MSA storage, replicating with something like DoubleTake to a third HP Proliant at site 2 for DR.
2)
Site1 - 2 x HP ProLiants with local storage and VSA or HP StoreVirtual array (aka LeftHand), using SAN replication to site 2 where we could have a one or two node config of the same setup.
Ideally I would like all 3/4 nodes in these configurations to be part of the same multi-site cluster to ensure resources like file shares are in sync. With two pieces of storage across this single cluster (either a DoubleTake or SAN replication to local
disks in DR) will this work? How will the cluster/SAN fail over the storage?
We do have VMWare 5.0/1 (not 5.5 yet). We don't have Hyper-V yet either. Any thoughts on the above, and possible alternatives welcome. HA failover RTO we'd like in seconds. DR longer, perhaps 30 mins.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts and guidance.

For automated failover between sites, the storage replication needs to have a way to script the failover so you can have a custom resource that performs the failover at the SAN level before the disks come online.
DoubleTake has GeoCluster which should accomplish this. I'm not sure about how automated Lefthand's solution is for multi-site clusters.
VMware has Site Recovery Manager, though this is really an assisted failover and not really an automatic site failover solution. It's automated so that you can failover between sites at the push of a button, but this would need to be a planned failover.
RTO of seconds might be difficult to accomplish as you need to give the storage replication enough time to reverse direction while giving the MS cluster enough time to bring cluster applications online.
When planning your multi-site cluster, I'd recommend going with 2 nodes on each site and then use the file share witness quorum on your 3rd site. If you only had one node on the remote site, the primary site would never be able to failover to the remote
site without manually overriding the quorum as 1 node isn't enough to gain enough votes for quorum. With 2 nodes on each site and a FSW, each site has the opportunity to gain enough votes to maintain quorum should one of the sites go down.
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Details on Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2

We are planning to move our file server from a Server 2008 cluster (running on an outdated SAN) to a Server 2008 R2 cluster attached to a new SAN.
The FSMT looks like the best way to accomplish this, but I have a few questions.
1. The docs don't mention 2008 R2 in any functional descriptions, but the requirements on the download link at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10268 mention
2008 R2. Does this version of the tool work with 2008 R2? If so, are there any restrictions or features that are unavailable?
2. The existing file servers are old and tend to get slowed down periodically by a combination of heavy use, security software, and automated vulnerability scans. The docs do mention graceful rollback, but is there any mechanism for retrying copies due to
slow/dropped connections?
3. We cannot have a single point of failure, so DFS will have to be clustered. Can the DFS root server run on the same cluster as the source or target file servers? Target would be preferable since we intend to decommission the source cluster. (We are in
a restricted environment where adding machines takes a great deal of time.)

I havent tried your scenario with FSMT.
Do you have a DFS Namespace that you use today for the access?
Im not certain that FSMT can setup a DFS Consolidation namespace in a Cluster, but it is possible by hand anyway.
Microsoft KB829885 specifies how to setup a DFS Consolidation namespace in a Windows 2003 Cluster, the process for a single node is the same so I guess the same is true for cluster setups.
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File Server Migration NTFS Permissions cleanup

Hello,
I have migrated a file server from Domain1.com to Domain2.com, using the lates ADMT tool the security translation that i have choosen in the wizard is Replace so I can get the same users on domain2.com to access the resources.
however some users are disabled in Domain1.com that I haven't migrated them so the wizard was unable to translate them and they are retained as [email protected]
to get rid of those i started the Security Translation Wizard with the option remove to clean up and delete Domain1.com but unfortunatly it didn't delete those entries and they are still there.
Any Idea about a script removes entries based only on the domain name *@domain1.com or Domain1\*
Thanks!

Hi,
You can run the command below to remove granted permissions:
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Icacls
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525.aspx
Script to Remove "Authenticated Users" Permissions on C Drive
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(question) File Server Migration ability ?

Hi, All
I started to migrate my 2003 File server to a new 2012 File server
I used the recommended scenario (RoboCopy) but because the current server is in another vLAN so it's very slow
My friend told me that I can attach the new storage to the current 2003 server and copy it, it'll be faster
now my question by copying it like this, shall the permission will be effected
(if I copied the data from one drive to another using this command robocopy /E //COPY:DATSOU /MIR /log+:C:\CopoReportLog.txt /xo /fft ) shall it get the right permission
Thanks

Hi,
You can use the robocopy command to copy data and security permissions to a storage then attach the storage to the new server. But the robocopy does not do aprovide local group migration. It will migrate the permissions to the new server, but they will show
up as SIDs without the local groups. You’d create the local groups, then you'd use SubInACLs to substitue the old SIDs for the new Group names.
The command line would look like this:
SubInAcl /subdirectories C:\SomeDirectory /Replace=SomeUglyLookingSID=NewServer\NewGroup
SubInACL (SubInACL.exe)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23510
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MAC, CS2: File server migration problem/Missing Link/auto remap behavior.

Hi,
I'm just leaving a quite "trace" in case someone else get in similar problems and do a search of the forum, it's very technical and i'm also missing some information, so i wont make a special effort to make it easier to understand.
We did a migration of a project from a OSX desktop station used as a server to a real OSX server (same root volume name, exact replication of the folders). Many of links in the indesign documents (not all) are missing.
After trying a few things, including inspecting the links in a .inx export, i have discovered that the remapping mecanism (when a link is missing) doesnt work the same depending of the OSX version (maybe related to afp version?) and also depending of the Indesign version used.
One of the case we have is a filepath that is encoded (in the inx file) using a "~sep~" in replacement of "_" (underscore) (documented, but very briefly in the inx specs documentation). It looks like the file was imported from a folder that was named "01_test" by exemple and later renamed "01-test" without doing the update in the indesign files.
On our "old" serveur, the link with such encoded char is resolved without any error/warning (just like "_" would be the same as "-"), but on our new serveur the link are reported as missing. I did the same test using CS3 and the links are reported as missing using the old and new serveur.
The new behavior of CS3 is better as it report adequately the change in filename (containing "-" instead of "_") instead of having a automatic remap (not working the same way accross different version of OSX) and also no commiting the change to the document (the remapping is not stored with the resolved link, the original link with "~sep~" is kept. One last odd behavior is that if we relink one path in a document, all the other links are resolved (on the new server) at document opening.. but if we unmount/remount the volume (restart indesign?), the link are still missing...
I'm missing some information on the expected behavior of indesing missing link automatic correction, also related to afp version (spotlight indexing could be involved??).
Currently i'm doing a log output of all the missing link to have a complete picture of the problem (in case the are other problems not related to the "_" and "-" in path name).
Eric

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Files server migration with deduplication

Dear All,
I need to migrate the FTP server from Windows Server 2003 Web Edition to Windows server 2012R2 Std.
The purpose of this migration is saving disk space. (Testing dedup result is 80%)
I'm trying to setup a migration plan but I have doubt regarding files/folders copy from the old server to the new one.
For the moment the current server has a data disk of 170GB, on the new server I would like to have a disk of 50GB. How to perform data copy ?
Is it possible to perform a first copy with Robocopy (1 day before) for example and the D day purge deleted files/folders and copy new one ? (I don't think it's possible because the file will not be the same (pointer vs real file)).
Also because disks are not the same I will have to copy data in several times. Is it not an issue to manually execute Dedup job when copying ?
Does anyone have experience with this kind of migration ?
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Are you going physical to physical or virtual to physical or virtual to virtual? Say your going virtual to virtual, you can umount the virtual volume and shift it to the new VM and setup your FTP server to point to the volume. But the downside to going virtual
with dedupe is you have to pretty much thick provision your virtual hard disk. Dedupe will touch every block in the virtual disk causing it to fully provision. If you do scheduled SAN snapshots you have to be cautious about this change. I also recommend striping
short names and disabling 8.3 naming. The beauty is if you are doing domain permissions for ACL's on the filesystem then you do not have to apply them to the volume. You just have to rebuild shares and you can apply everyone access to those. But if they were
local machine ACL's like a machine on a workgroup you would have to rebuild them.
If it's physical to physical you have similar options if you utilize a shared SAN for your storage.
I've done both of these options and downtime was minimal something like 5 to 15 minutes. That being said I'd still recommend Robocopy if you could do it.

File server migration software, what is out there?

I'll be migrating about 9Tb of files from 10 file servers from the 'old' domain where we have limited rights to our new domain where we will be having to re-create (rather than migrate) users and security groups. We cannot set up a two way trust between
the domains. (one way may be possible).
The files are user shares, department shares and (unfortunately) PST files.
I was wondering if someone has experience or know about software that could help with this. I've found the
http://www.varonis.com/products/data-transport-engine/ Varonis data transport engine which seems to do what I need. (although I'm not sure if a trust is needed or not).
What would seem especially important is some functionality that 'maps' security groups form the source domain to the target domain groups.
I was hoping you might know of other tools that do the same thing? Any experience with a similar challenge?
Regards, Paul www.servercare.nl

Hi,
From the description, you would like to migrate data to a server in a different domain
with permission.
Copy files with permission is easy - robocopy could help with using /copyall. However the copied permissions will not be recognized as it is a different domain.
Thus if data need to be copied with permission, which means the same users and groups in domainA should be recognized in domainB. This leads us using ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) to do the user/group migration first.
However you need a Trust between the 2 domains to do the ADMT. If "limited rights" stopped you from creating a one-way trust (source domain trusts the target domain), you may not able to copy files with permissions.
FYI:
ADMT Guide: Migrating and Restructuring Active Directory Domains
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974332(v=ws.10).aspx
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