10.1 Meeting System and Software Requirements

The Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit, which includes NetWare Migration Wizard 8.1, runs on a Windows workstation. This section provides information about the system and software requirements for the Windows workstation, the source server, and the destination server.

10.1.1 Workstation Requirements

NetWare Migration Wizard 8.1 is installed as part of the Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit. If you have not already met the workstation requirements and installed the toolkit, see Section 3.2, Installing the Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit.

10.1.2 Source Server Requirements

The source server is the NetWare server that contains the files, volumes, and NDS®/eDirectory™ objects to be copied to the NetWare destination server.

  • You must have the Supervisor right to the source server's file system and the source server itself.

    Use ConsoleOne® to verify that you have the necessary rights.

    IMPORTANT:When migrating a NetWare 6.0 server with eDirectory version 8.6.2 to a new NetWare 6.0 server with eDirectory 8.6.2, you might encounter an NDS error stating you couldn't copy an NDS object because you do not have the proper rights. This can occur even if you are logged in as Admin.

    Installing eDirectory version 8.7 or later on the source server and running the migration again resolves this issue.

10.1.3 Destination Server Requirements

The destination server is the new computer that is to receive the data from the source server. This server must be installed into a temporary tree and it must be the only server in that tree.