Brocade Network Advisor Migration Guide v11.1x (53-1002321-01, May 2011)
Table Of Contents
- Brocade Network Advisor
- In this guide
- Feature support
- Network Advisor packages
- Management server and client ports
- System requirements
- Migration paths
- Pre-migration requirements
- Installing the application
- Cross operating system migration
- DCFM migration
- Network Advisor migration
- Network Advisor 11.0.X to 11.1.X command mapping
- Cross flavor migration
- Unsupported server migration
- Configuring an explicit server IP address
- IPv6 troubleshooting
- Syslog troubleshooting
- Uninstallation
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DCFM migration
DCFM Professional Plus edition migration
NOTE
DCFM Professional Plus trial to Network Advisor Professional software migration is not supported.
The following migration paths are supported:
• DCFM Professional Plus 10.4.X trial edition to Network Advisor 11.1.X Trial
• DCFM Professional Plus 10.4.X trial edition to Network Advisor 11.1.X Licensed Version
• DCFM Professional Plus 10.4.X full edition to Network Advisor 11.1.X Licensed Version
Both Trial and Licensed Version software include the following two SAN packages:
• Professional Plus (2560 switch ports, 4 fabrics and 4096 devices)
• Enterprise (9000 switch ports, 24 fabrics and 10,000 devices)
Required for evaluation of DCX Backbone and FICON management.
Use the following procedure to migrate data from DCFM Professional Plus. If you have not installed the application,
refer to “Installing the application” on page 24.
Migrating from Professional Plus to Network Advisor 11.1.X
NOTE
Professional Plus full edition to Trial software migration is not supported.
1. Click Next on the Welcome screen.
2. Choose one of the following options and click Next.
• If data is detected on your system (automatically detected), select Yes, from DCFM or Network Advisor in the
following location.
• If data is not detected, the select Yes, from Network Advisor installed in this machine or on network and
click Browse to browse to the installation directory.
3. (Optional) If you do not want to migrate historical performance data, select the Do not migrate historical
performance data check box on the Data Migration screen.
4. Click Start on the Data Migration screen.
Data migration may take several minutes. When data migration is complete, the previous version is partially
uninstalled.
5. Click Next on the Data Migration screen.