P2V,V2V and V2P Migration (SEP ISO)

This document applies to all system migrations using the SEP ISO Image.

This document applies to Citrix XenServer,OSS XEN, VMware and VirtualBox.

Using the SEP ISO image to boot a recovery vm:

Before Boot

• Start downloading the ISO image
• Use the "Other or Manual" template to create the vm
• Create the VM with the same number of disks as the original system
• Each virtual disk must be the same size or larger then the original disk
• Beware of hardware raid adapters which often present each array as a unique disk
• The number of vcpus should be 1 for single/dual core hosts or 2 for quad+
• After recovery install and configure the vm managment tools for a higher vm performance with lower host load
• Start the virtual machine

After logging in as root to the restored system:

• You may have to re-configure the network interfaces because mac addresses may have changed.
  You may be able to avoid this step by editing a file in the /etc/udev* folder and removing entries for both eth0 and eth1, more specifically the file that contains the rules, not a generator of rules.
  Location hint: egrep -r eth0 /etc/udev*
• If the system won't boot you need to change the device names or virtual disk controller card type (IDE->SCSI/AHCI)
  If this doesn't work and you have repeated the dr restore you may need to fix /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst manually.
• Linux Kernel v2.6.32+ or the xen domu kernel  is required to use PV
• How To Migrate Physical SLES to Citrix in PV mode