The ZENworks Appliance Migration Utility copies the ZENworks 11 SP3 data and the appliance network settings to the new virtual disk called vastorage, used to migrate to the ZENworks 11 SP4 Appliance.
IMPORTANT:After the data and network settings are copied from the appliance to vastorage, the Primary Server is no longer available for use. You should not start this part of the process until you are ready to complete the entire process (ZENworks 11 SP4 Appliance deployment and data migration).
Download the ZENworks 11 SP4 version of the Migration Utility to the machine hosting the ZENworks 11 SP3 Appliance.
You can download the ApplianceMigrationUtility.iso file from the ZENworks 11 SP4 download site.
Stop the ZENworks services on all other Primary Servers in the zone to ensure that no files that need to be copied are in use by one of the services.
You do not have to shut down the ZENworks services on the appliance you are migrating. The Appliance Migration Utility does that automatically.
For help shutting down the services, see Stopping the ZENworks Services in the ZENworks 11 SP4 Primary Server and Satellite Reference.
Copy the Primary Server’s data and network settings to the new hard disk:
On the ZENworks 11 SP3 Appliance create the /ApplianceMU directory and mount the ApplianceMigrationUtility.iso to this directory.
In a terminal window, change to the ApplianceMU directory on the mounted ISO.
Login to the Appliance System as root, then run the script ./ApplianceMigrationUtility.sh to start the migration utility.
Do not run the ./ApplianceMigrationUtility.sh script remotely using SSH connection.
Follow the prompts to copy the ZENworks data to the new hard disk mounted under /vastorage.
If multiple hard disks are detected, then list of hard disks is displayed. Ensure that you chose the empty hard disk. If you select the wrong hard disk it will be formatted.
If the new hard disk is not large enough, then an error message and the utility will exit. Add space to the hard disk and then run the utility again.
The Copying Files dialog window is displayed during the migration process.
When the utility has finished copying the data, disk gets un-mounted from the ZENworks 11 SP3 Appliance automatically.
Ensure that you have collected the details about the disk file name and its storage location.
For log details, see /tmp/ApplianceMigrationUtility.log file.
Shutdown the ZENworks 11 SP3 Appliance and detach the new migration disk (/vastorage) from the ZENworks 11 SP3 Appliance.
If applicable, also detach the ZENworks repository disk (/var/opt/novell/zenworks) from the ZENworks 11 SP3 Appliance.
Continue with the next task, Deploying and Configuring the ZENworks 11 SP4 Appliance.