<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 17 Apr 2013, at 11:25, Manuel Bona Perez wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="hps">To</span> <span class="hps">make the migration</span>,
<span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">vmconverter
failed</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">had
to make a new install of the</span> system BlueOnyx-5108R
SL6.2<span class="hps">,</span> in a virtual machine <span class="hps">and copy</span> <span class="hps">the folders:</span>
<span class="hps">Root,</span> <span class="hps">tmp</span>, <span class="hps">var</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">home</span></p></div></blockquote>That's rather brave.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"><span class="hps">When starting</span> <span class="hps">the new
machine had 4</span> <span class="hps">NICs</span>, 2 <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">the old machine</span>
<span class="hps">with</span> his <span class="hps">mac</span>
<span class="hps">address</span> <span class="hps">and 2</span>
of the new <span class="hps">virtual</span> <span class="hps">machine</span>
<span class="hps">with</span> his <span class="hps">mac</span>
<span class="hps">address</span>, <span class="hps">the issue</span>
<span class="hps">is that the server</span> <span class="hps">does
not respond</span> <span class="hps">over network</span>
because it had <span class="hps">the old</span> <span class="hps">mac.</span></span></p></div></blockquote>Log in locally. Clear up the network config scripts so you're left with only the correct interfaces. Then run /root/network_settings.sh to configure the IP addresses on these interfaces. That will update the Cobalt database. Check in the UI to make sure the settings are correct afterwards (I'd click save just to make sure).</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<span lang="EN"><span class="hps">We need to</span> <span class="hps">migrate</span> <span class="hps">several servers</span>
and <span class="hps">would need to know</span>:<br>
<span class="hps">What would be the</span> <span class="hps">easiest
way to</span> <span class="hps">connect to the old
configuration</span> <span class="hps">of the 2</span> <span class="hps">network</span> <span class="hps">cards</span> to <span class="hps">the new</span> <span class="hps">network cards</span>
<span class="hps">(</span>reassign <span class="hps">the new</span>
<span class="hps">mac</span>)?<br></span></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Use the migration utilities! Build a new BlueOnyx box then use the Export/Import utilities to move all the data across. Copying around system folders is unlikely to work.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div></body></html>