Migrate ZEN 11 SP2 VM to ZEN 11 virtual appliance

Question

I am trying to migrate to zen 11 SP3 but I keep running into compatibility issues with the tools.
My current system is one primary server running zen 11SP2 on OES2/SLES10 64bit and one 64bit SLES 11 satellite server in a branch office .
What I have tried thus far:
-I have tried adding a zen 11SP3 v-app to the zone and then retire the old OES VM but this is not supported b/c you can't have a SP3 machine in an SP2 zone.
-I then tried adding a zen 11 SP2 v-app to the zone and run the SP3 migration tool but the migration tool fails b/c the tool does not support migrating to a v-app.
Can someone give me some direction on how to move to SP3? Should I use the SP2 mig tool or is there an easier solution?
Thank you,
Brad

Answer 1

My ultimate goal is to have a primary ZEN 11 SP3 server running on a ZEN 11.3 v-app (I do not want to buy a SLES license). Would it be easier to follow the replace/restore a zen primary server documentation? I was really hoping for a tool that would move this a long a lot faster.
This is what I hoped would work:
OES2 (unsupported SLES10)
migrate to
ZEN 11.2 v-app (supported SLES11)
now use migration tool to go
ZEN 11.3 v-app (supported SLES11)
Thanks for the help,
Brad
Originally Posted by smflood
On 09/07/2014 15:06, BPainter wrote:
> I have read through that documentation and I do believe it will be
> straight forward once I'm to that point. My current primary server is
> an OES2 virtual machine - this machine doesn't have a supported upgrade
> path to 11.3. So my thought process has been to use a ZEN 11.2 virtual
> appliance and then migrate the data from my OES2 machine. After the ZEN
> 11.2 v-app becomes the primary server I then add the ZEN 11.3 virtual
> appliance and run the migration utility to migrate to 11.3. I haven't
> found in the documentation where it deals with this sort of
> migration/upgrade. The ZENworks 11 Server Migration Guide states to use
> the setup.sh -R from the media to perform a migration, but this fails
> because migrating from my OES2 server to a virtual appliance is not
> supported. So how do I migrate my OES2 server to a ZEN 11.2 virtual
> appliance?
You can't use the ZENworks Server Migration tool to migrate to (or from)
a ZENworks Virtual Appliance.
Are you trying to use the ZENworks Virtual Appliance as a stepping stone
to your final destination or is it your final destination?
There's no need to migrate from ZENworks 11 SP2 on OES2 to a ZENworks 11
SP2 Virtual Appliance as you can install a supported Linux (can't be
Windows since you have OES2) OS (I'd suggest SLES11 SP3) on another
machine (could be virtual) and then ZENworks 11 SP2 followed immediately
by the 11.2.4 Update (to support SLES11 SP3).
See
https://www.novell.com/documentation....html#bookinfo
for the Migration Guide.
HTH.
Simon
Novell Knowledge Partner
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