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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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How to script SQL Server Jobs for migration

When migrating servers, how can I easily script all my SQL Server Jobs onto a new machine? NOTE Not accepting "backup msdb" as the answer.
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Proxmox - Uploading disk image

I've got a KVM Virtual Machine in my local PC, and I'd like to copy it to a Proxmox server. According to the docs, I just have to create a new VM on Proxmox and add the existing disk image to it, but how do I upload the image to the server? In the…
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How to migrate a physical system to a KVM virtual server with only network access?

I have an obsolete linux app-server running which I would like to migrate to a KVM virtual server with greater specifications. I do not have physical access to the machine itself or its harddisks. I only have access to the server across the…
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Move to new Exchange Organisation

I have a client with an existing Exchange 2007 organisation with approximately 200 users, all with reasonable size mailboxes. They wish to move to a new Exchange organisation in a completely new AD forest, on new hardware, in a different physical…
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Migrating from MyISAM to XtraDB

Just a few questions that I just can't find anywhere about migrating to XtraDB. My group has been using MyISAM dbs for production and was wondering how hard is it to migrate to Percona's XtraDB and how would you go about doing so? Would I have to…
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How to Migrate vCenter Virtual Appliance

I am looking to migrate a vCenter 5.0 virtual appliance to another machine with DAS. Is it possible to do this without vMotion and without breaking anything? If so, could one follow a similar process to migrating a VM without a vCenter server as…
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Openstack: Is it possible to migrate an instance from a dead compute server to a live one?

I've got a cluster with 84 Openstack Essex compute nodes, one of which decided to pine for the fjords about 2 hours ago, with 8 running instances on it. The instances are all running off qcow2 disks on an NFS share, so the disk images are still…
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Windows 2003 x32 CA to Windows 2008 x64 CA migration

In the following period I have to migrate the AD over to 2008 schema level. I currently have a x64 Windows 2008 R2 domain controller and one x32 Windows Server 2003 domain controller. The x32 server is a old machine which doesn't even support the…
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Adding a Windows Server 2012 Essentials server to an existing domain, without migrating the AD

I have an existing Active Directory in house, a mix between a Win2K8R2 and Win2K3 domain, and i would like to test out Windows Server 2012 Essentials BETA on the network. When walking though the install, it gives me the option of a new domain, or…
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Chef Server Migration

A company that I'm contracting with has determined that they need to migrate their Chef (Open-Source Edition) instance to a new server. They do not want to migrate to the Hosted platform. I have not been able to find a guide for how to do this. …
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Any reason why memory usage would be higher after migration to a new server?

I migrated my website to a new server recently. The server administrator mentioned that the website uses a large amount of memory. I didn't have FTP access at the time, so on my test server version (the original before migration) which was still…
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Server migration, minimize wrong DNS lookups

I run a large website (500k uniques a day) and am about to move to another hoster. My new machine is setup, and tested, all files are copied over, so I am almost ready to change the my domain's IP address at my registrar. Now I would like to know…
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How do I migrate Amazon EC2 Windows AMI (or instances) from one region to another?

I have a Windows EC2 AMI and instance in Virginia but want to migrate it to Oregon. My guess is an instance migration may be impossible since it's live but at least an AMI+EBS volume transfer would help! Also, I know this has been asked before, but…
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Can I temporarily leave other roles active when converting a 2008 R2 server to a hyper-v host?

I currently have a Windows 2008 R2 box that I want to convert to a hyper-v host. Currently I have the following running on it: File Services, Web Server (IIS), and Sql Server 2008 R2 with a few different DBs. In the long term, I'd like to move all…
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Migrating Terminal Server profiles from 2003 to 2008 R2 "V2"

I've done some searching and there doesn't appear to be a method of migrating old 2003 based profiles to the new "V2" profiles automatically. Specifically, we're interested in retaining the .NK2 file in Outlook, the Favorites folder, and…
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