Yes...we still have some legacy NetWare 5.1 servers in production.  Hard
not to admire servers that haven't been rebooted in years :)  That said
- we're migrating and consolidating these remaining "vintage" NetWare
boxes to virtual 6.5 OES servers.

Is there a TID or defined procedure for performing this migration?

Just one tree.  The legacy 5.1 servers are on a subnet (VLAN) that
we're abandoning - with the virtual servers being on a new VLAN.  With
multiple VLANs - we're using a dhcp helper in our core switch
configuration - so we'll have to update the configuration to point to
the new DHCP servers IP address.

Is there any other "gotchas" to worry about?

Can the migration be gradual - with both the legacy and new DCHP
servers active in the tree - and just migrate subnets/VLANs one at a
time?

I appreciate any guidance...


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kellym
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On 30/12/2011 21:46, kellym wrote:

> Yes...we still have some legacy NetWare 5.1 servers in production.  Hard
> not to admire servers that haven't been rebooted in years :)  That said
> - we're migrating and consolidating these remaining "vintage" NetWare
> boxes to virtual 6.5 OES servers.
>
> Is there a TID or defined procedure for performing this migration?
>
> Just one tree.  The legacy 5.1 servers are on a subnet (VLAN) that
> we're abandoning - with the virtual servers being on a new VLAN.  With
> multiple VLANs - we're using a dhcp helper in our core switch
> configuration - so we'll have to update the configuration to point to
> the new DHCP servers IP address.
>
> Is there any other "gotchas" to worry about?
>
> Can the migration be gradual - with both the legacy and new DCHP
> servers active in the tree - and just migrate subnets/VLANs one at a
> time?
>
> I appreciate any guidance...

Assuming you're wanting to migrate the DHCP services and not talking 
about migrating actual servers then yes the migration can be gradual. 
All you need to do is change the DHCP server a particular DHCP service 
is associated with then unload/reload DHCPSRVR.NLM on the relevant 
servers (old and new).

HTH.
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Simon Flood wrote:

>Assuming you're wanting to migrate the DHCP services and not talking about 
>migrating actual servers then yes the migration can be gradual. All you 
>need to do is change the DHCP server a particular DHCP service is 
>associated with then unload/reload DHCPSRVR.NLM on the relevant servers 
>(old and new).

Actuall, you mave the DHCP subnet to a different DHCP server.

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