The process of moving one system or service from one location or model to another.
Questions tagged [migration]
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Best practices for migrating to new SAN
My collaborator is splitting from his institute and wants help moving his application and data off the institute's network. And of course things are moving quickly.
He has 12 TB of image data on a 400 TB SAN, which is addressed over iSCSI.
The…

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Migrating emails from Exchange (2010/SBS2011) to Office 365
After spending several weeks and reading many different guides, I just have not been able to come up with a solution other than to use a third party tool and I would be greatful if someone can help me here.
I have a client with SBS 2011 that is…

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Inplace migrating ZFS RAIDZ with 3 drives to 4 disks, when pool has more than 1/3 of free space
On creating my RAID-Z pool on ZoL I assumed, I could easily just drop-in additional disks later on. Meanwhile I learned that this is yet not possible.
But... I had a similar problem on creating my initial pool. Only 4 free SATA ports, but an old…

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Need to move VM to another host with different cpu
I currently have a VM configured with CPU 1 socket & 8 cores per socket. I need to move this VM to another ESXi 5.5 host which has 2 CPU sockets with 6 cores per socket.
Will I will able to run this VM configured with 8 cores (1 socket) in the new…

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Exchange Autodiscover Authentication fails after mailbox migration from 2010 to 2013 is completed; until server is backed up or rebooted
I have installed an Exchange 2013 Mail server on our network following the Microsoft guide on migrating from an Exchange 2010 to 2013 server. I am at the point where I have both servers running side by side with the 2013 server proxying the 2010,…

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Windows Server 2012 Migration (DNS/AD DS Standard Eval to Essentials OEM) P2V -> Do I need a Secondary Domain Controller during migration?
This is my first post on this exchange (although not my first on stack exchange), so please have patience.
I am a 3rd year student intern, and I have been tasked with virtualizing the server systems at the company I work for. I have come a long…

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Virtualizing OS/2 Warp
We have an existing OS/2 Warp 4.5 computer that runs our company's voicemail system. There has been a lot of turnover in the telecomm department and currently no one knows anything about the system other than it runs stably. However, the hardware is…
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How to migrate users in SoftEther from one server to another?
I'm using SoftEther as a VPN server system and it works fine for me. But was wondering how (if its possible) to move users from one server to another without having to recreate the account?
I can't find where the user data is stored and I'm not…

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How to perform upgrades on live servers
We have two servers that host two Windows 2008 servers with HyperV. Each of these servers has over 10 virtual machines (Exchange 2003, Active Directory, etc).
We have decided to upgrade it to Server 2012 (and upgrade the Exchange to 2013). However,…

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Migrating existing domain to a new domain controller and keeping the server name
My current problem is the following migration scenario:
Existing domain:
Domain-Controller (Windows Server 2003 x86) named "W2003SRV" with domain DOMAIN.LOCAL
Terminal-Server 1 (Windows Server 2008 R2 x64)
Terminal-Server 2 (Windows Server 2008 R2…

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Seamless email server migration
I am in the process of migrating everything from server A to server B and that includes email services.
I have already set up server B to accept mail for our domain, user authentication is working and I also have a script which runs an rsync of…

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How to add content to all pages in a mediawiki?
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How do I add a text (notice) to the content (not a header or global template) of every page?
(very) long question with background:
I'm planning to migrate a MediaWiki over to another wiki. The content of the wiki has been migrated from an…

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How to migrate graylog2 to new server with all saved data and logs?
I need to change my graylog2 server to a new one with all data included. I've installed the new version, mongodb, elasticsearch and graylog2-web-interface.
I also copied all elasticsearch_data to the new server and checked all config…

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Migrating Local Users from Server 2003 x86 to Server 2008 x64
I'll try to spare the sob story, but we have an FTP server we are trying to migrate from Server 2003 x86 to Server 2008 x64. This server has hundreds of FTP users, users that ONLY log on via FTP.
As you can guess, I'm looking for a way to migrate…

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How do I solve LDIFDE errors on "last token starts with 'C'" and "change-modify entry is missing the terminator '-'" when..?
How do I solve LDIFDE errors on "last token starts with 'C'" and "change-modify entry is missing the terminator '-'" when trying to pair existing users to exiting security groups (domain migration)?
I execute…

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