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Questions tagged [migration]

The process of moving one system or service from one location or model to another.

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MySQL: how to convert many MyISAM tables to InnoDB in a production database?

We have a production database that is made up entirely of MyISAM tables. We are considering converting them to InnoDB to gain better concurrency & reliability. Can I just alter the myISAM tables to InnoDB without shutting down MySQL? What are the…
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Properly copy partition data to another disk?

I have a disk with separate partitions for each folder (/usr, /var, /home etc.) and wish to transfer the whole thing to another disk that is slightly larger, now I do not wish to keep the partition scheme, so should I mount all partitions (so they…
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Can we use our local AD in an external hosted CRM installation?

As I said in the title we have to migrate MS Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server and database from our local network, to an external datacenter. This datacenter has different domain and active directory. The first issue we have to solve is AD authentication for…
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How is memory transferred in Xen live motion?

I am researching XenServer from Citrix and (with 2 colleagues) comparing it with VMware ESX and Microsoft HyperV. In our tests, it seems that Xen's live migration is using less resources than VMware's ESX and I would like to know why that is.…
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NFS v4, HA Migration, and stale handles on clients

I'm managing a server running NFS v4 with Pacemaker/OpenAIS. NFS is configured to use TCP. When I migrate the NFS server to another node in the Pacemaker cluster, even though the metadata is persisted, connections from the clients 'hang' and…
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How to stop windows file shares during migration?

I'm getting ready to migrate a physical file server to our VM environment using VMware standalone converter. This file server has over 300 shares on it, so deleting all the shares and recreating them is not an option. I'd like to be able to disable…
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Method or tool to migrate Bugzilla to Team Foundation Server (TFS)

What's is the best method or tool Bugzilla posts to the Team Foundation Server (TFS)?
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Physical to Physical Migration of server OS's and applications

I have several physical servers which have windows 2003 OS'es installed on them along with a couple of web based applications running on them. These servers are HP DL380 G5 servers which are coming to end of life and don't have such a good power…
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Testing a mail server before migration

I'm migrating a Mailman installation from Server A to Server B. Server B is fully configured and ready for the move, but I would like to test it before changing my domain's MX entries. If I were testing HTTP, I would just modify my /etc/hosts file…
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Windows Workgroup to Domain Migration

We have a Windows network running in Workgroup mode with no server. There are around 14 machines on the network so it's clearly time we moved to a SBS 2008 server in domain mode. My question surrounds migration of user accounts to this domain…
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Best way to migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL

I have to migrate a MySQL database to PostgreSQL. I have tried the mysqldump with --compatible = postresql. I have seen that some poeple use ETL like Talend to make the migration but you must describe the migration for all tables... (I have 39…
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Best practices for re-IP'ing / migrating servers and applications

Some of this question would be highly application-specific, but what approaches do you take when looking to migrate applications from one server/platform to another and servers from one network segment to another? For applications that can't be…
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migration of physical server to a virtual solution, what i have to do?

I've been a trainee in company for a month, and my mission is to migrate 3 physical servers to a virtualization technology. The company edits software for E-learning so there are lots of data like videos, flash and compressed (zip). This is a part…
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Migrate data from SQL Compact to SQL Server 2008

I need to do a one-time migration of data from SQL Server Compact Edition to SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. I'm looking for a tool to do this kind of migration. I've tried using Import and Export Data in SQL Server, but it doesn't let me import…
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How to Export/Transfer DHCP data?

We have a very old server HP ML110. It is beginning to cause hardware (power) troubles. We are hosting DHCP services on this on Windows Server 2000. Now I would like to transfer all the DHCP data (it has reserved IP addresses) from this old server…
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