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 Enterprise edition migration
NOTE
DCFM Enterprise trial to Professional or Professional Plus license migration is not supported.
The following migration paths are supported:
• DCFM Enterprise 10.4.X trial edition to Network Advisor 11.1.X Trial
• DCFM Enterprise 10.4.X trial edition to Network Advisor 11.1.X Licensed Version
• DCFM Enterprise 10.4.X full edition to Network Advisor 11.1.X Licensed Version
Use the following procedure to migrate data from DCFM Enterprise trial or full edition to Network Advisor Enterprise
software. If you have not installed the application, refer to “Installing the application” on page 24.
Migrating from DCFM Enterprise
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.
6. Select one of the following options on the Installation Type screen and click Next.
• Network Advisor - 75 days trial
Continue with step 7.
ATTENTION
If you choose to install Trial software, once the trial period ends (75 days), you must upgrade to Licensed
Version software.
• Network Advisor - Licensed Version
Go to step 8.
7. (Trial software only) Click Next on the Trial Configuration screen
The following option is selected by default on the Trial Configuration screen:
Enterprise (9000 switch ports, 24 fabrics and 10,000 devices)
Required for evaluation of DCX Backbone and FICON management.
Go to step 8.