Data Migration from Insight Control server deployment to Insight Control server provisioning

server and then executes a script

Windows or Linux Run Script that

copies a single file to the target

server

Windows or Linux Run Script

Configuration File

* Note: Packages cannot be added, deleted, or modified.

Images from Image Captures

Images Created with Symantec rdeploy Utility

IC server provisioning does not have the capability of using images created by Symantec’s rdeploy utility.

To use the image data with IC server provisioning

1. The image will need to be deployed to a target server using RDP.

2. The target server migrated to IC server provisioning by a method described in the Target Server section.

3. A new image captured of the target server using IC server provisioning.

Images Created with Symantec Ghost

IC server provisioning does not have the capability of using images created by Symantec’s Ghost Solution.

To use the image data with IC server provisioning

1. The image will need to be deployed to a target server using RDP.

2. The target server migrated to IC server provisioning by a method described in the Target Server section.

3. A new image captured of the target server using IC server provisioning.

Images Created with ImageX

Images captured with ImageX via RDP job do not always work properly when deployed with IC server provisioning.

To use the image data with IC server provisioning

1. The image will need to be deployed to a target server using RDP.

2. The target server migrated to IC server provisioning by a method described in the Target Server section.

3. A new image captured of the target server using IC server provisioning.

Hardware Configuration and Operating System Answer Files

The captured or customized hardware configuration files for System BIOS, Smart Array, and iLO configurations, may be

used with IC server provisioning without modification. IC server provisioning uses the same utilities with the same

configuration file format as RDP.

Captured or customized Fibre Channel HBA configuration files will require modification to be used with IC server

provisioning since IC server provisioning uses different HBA configuration utilities.

Any customized RDP answer files: Windows unattend, Red Hat Linux or ESXi 5.x kickstart, and SUSE Linux autoyast, will

require modification to be used with IC server provisioning. VMware ESX 4 deployments are not supported with IC server

provisioning and its answer files will not be converted.

RDP uses macros for name, value substitution where IC server provisioning uses custom attributes. Finding these

references are important to migrating the files to IC server provisioning. RDP macro syntax example is @@aaaa@@

where aaaa is the variable name. IC server provisioning custom attribute syntax example is @xxxx:yyyy@ where

xxxx is the variable name and yyyy is the optional default value if xxxx name is not found in the database.

Table 3: Examples of RDP Macro Replacement Mappings

Description

RDP Macro

IC server provisioning Custom Attribute