[Casper] Migration

[Ernst, Craig S.]

As everyone else has stated already it just works. I migrated from our PowerPC Xserves to our new Intel based Xserves with no issues.

We also have DNS for the SUS so we don't need to change anything but the DNS entry point for a change in SUS servers as well.

My two servers are quite large, but I still separate out services, JSS on one and Netboot, ASUS and VMs on the other. It's also my backup replication point.

Life is good.

Craig E

On 5/26/09 8:15 AM, "Nichols, Jared" <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu> wrote:

Hi-

I've gotten a brandy new Xserve in house (oh she's a beast) and will be planning server migration soon.  I've read through the migration bit in the documentation and it seems straightforward enough, though I have two questions:

 1.  Is there anything "out of the ordinary" that people ran into during a migration that they weren't expecting?
 2.  I currently employ a two server strategy - one for the JSS, one for the SUS - but the new server is certainly beefy enough to do double duty.  Ideally, I'd like to go "big bang" and get it all done in one fell swoop, reassigning everyone's SUS to the new JSS.  Advisable?  Pros/Cons?

FYI, the JSS uses DNS rather than direct IP so cutover is a breeze.

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436


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