3.1 Understanding the Upgrade Process

The upgrade process involves migrating any of your existing Novell Storage Manager 2.5x for Active Directory policies as well as deferred delete pending events.

A migration can be either “in-place” or an “across-the-wire.” You can do an in-place migration when the server currently hosting the Novell Storage Manager 2.5x NSM Engine will be the same server that hosts the Novell Storage Manager 3.1.1 NSM Engine. You do an across-the-wire migration when the Novell Storage Manager 3.1.1 NSM Engine will be hosted on a different server than the one currently hosting the Novell Storage Manager 2.5x NSM Engine.

The migration is a three-step process:

  1. The NSM Migration utility exports policies and deferred delete content from the Novell Storage Manager 2.5x NSM Engine.

  2. The NSMAdmin Setup Wizard imports the policies and deferred delete content to the Novell Storage Manager 3.1.1 NSM Engine.

  3. You perform Manage Operations to rebuild the Novell Storage Manager catalog.