[ale] Migration How To

[Derek Atkins]

Gene,

Gene Poole <gene.poole at macys.com> writes:

> OK, I realize that I'm behind on my personal systems.  That being said, I want
> to migrate from Fedora 13 to Fedora 16 and at the end of it all, drop VMware
> Server 2.0.2 in favor of the latest KVM and move from Oracle 11gR2 database to
> PostgreSQL database.. To complicate things more, I'm running Raid-1 on 2 -
> Hitachi Deskstar 1.5 TB drives with multiple partitions (including /boot).
>
> I've read that you can only migrate a single version when using Anaconda (i.e.
> Fedora 13 --> Fedora 14 --> Fedora 15 --> Fedora 16), so I can see the a full
> migration may take about a week.  At each stop, what should I verify to
> determine if the upgrade went OK? Should I stop my Oracle, JBoss and other
> applications prior to the upgrade?
>
> Is there some pieces of wisdom any of you can give me on this task?

You can upgrade via Anaconda or via Yum.  Me, I upgrade via yum.  I
generally do my upgrades one version at a time, but I also tend to
perform multiple upgrades immediately sequentially.  For example, I took
a number of machines from F12 -> 13 -> 14 -> 15 a few months ago.

I did all the upgrades at once; in between each upgrade I fixed any
.rpmnew and .rpmsave config files, but didn't perform system checks
until I got to the end.

I WOULD like I know what system you plan to replace vmware-server-2?  I
haven't found anything that performs similarly (headless operation with
web-based admin and console access).

> Thanks,
> Gene Poole

-derek
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