Brocade Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide v12.0.0 (53-1002801-01, March 2013)

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Pre-migration requirements
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• If you are migrating from a Network Advisor 12.0.0 one server to another server, complete the
following steps.
1. Install Network Advisor 12.0.0 on your current machine (refer to “Data Migration” on
page 33) and migrate your data (“Migrating data” on page 39).
2. Back up the server data on your current machine. For instructions, refer to “Configuring
backup” in the Brocade Network Advisor User Manual or online help.
3. Install Network Advisor 12.0.0 on your new machine (refer to “Data Migration” on
page 33).
4. Restore the server back up from your original 32-bit machine. For instructions, refer to
“Restoring data” in the Brocade Network Advisor User Manual or online help.
5. Relaunch the Configuration Wizard (refer to “Data Migration” on page 33) . For
instructions, refer to “Launching the Configuration Wizard” in the Brocade Network
Advisor User Manual or online help.
• Cross OS migration is not supported; however, you can restore a Windows OS backup to a
Linux
OS and vice versa. If you are migrating from one OS to another, complete the following
steps:
1. Install Network Advisor 12.0 (refer to “Installation” on page 1) on the current machine and
migrate your data (refer to “Migrating data” on page 39).
2. Back up the server data on your current machine. For instructions, refer to “Configuring
backup” in the Brocade Network Advisor User Manual or online help.
3. Install Network Advisor 12.0 (refer to “Installation” on page 1) on the new machine.
4. Restore the server back up from your original machine. For instructions, refer to “Restoring
data” in the Brocade Network Advisor User Manual or online help.
5. Relaunch the Configuration Wizard. For instructions, refer to “Launching the Configuration
Wizard” in the Brocade Network Advisor User Manual or online help.
Additional pre-migration requirements on UNIX systems
• Make sure that the current application services are running.
1. Go to Install_Home/bin.
2. Execute ./smc or sh smc.
3. Click the Services tab.
The tab lists the DCFM services.
4. Click Start, if necessary.
• Make sure that an X Server is available for display and is configured to permit X Client
applications to display from the host on which they are installing the Network Advisor Server
(typically, this simply requires that the systems console be present and running with a logged in
user on the X Server-based desktop session, such as KDE, GNOME, and so on).