Migrate Avaya IPOSE R11 from physical Avaya provided server to VMware 1

[effectivecommunicat]

Hi All,

Working on moving (2) HP DL360 (avaya provided) servers that are the primary and secondary servers over to VMware. Purchased (2) virtual licenses but looking for documentation on how to move a physical server to VMware. I realize we would need to rehost the licenses in PLDS, but is it as simple as loading the default R11 OVA and igniting the server and doing a back up on the physical server and a restore to the virtual server? The virtual deployment guide only discusses moving virtual to virtual, but wanted to see what the steps are to move physical to virtual... Or is there are any heads up caveats.

There are 2 other remote locations (Linux expansion and 500v2 Expansion that will stay as is) but are pulling licenses, centralized SIP trunks etc from the primary.

Thanks!

effectivecommunicat
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[Pepp77]

Yeah apart from the licencing differences, it will just be a backup/restore. You could even be really lazy and just do a save as of the config and then an offline send of the config to the new system.

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[effectivecommunicat]

Thanks for the reply Pepp77. I am hoping it is that easy, but wasn't sure if there are specific details that need to match the existing server. We we're going to have them spec the VMware appropriately and give the same LAN1/LAN2 IPs and try the backup/restore. I assume all AA menu/voicemail settings would carry over this way as well vs. sending an offline config. Opened a ticket with Avaya as well since i have yet to see any definitive document on the approved process, etc. Thanks again!

effectivecommunicat
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[Pepp77]

Never actually had to do a complete backup and restore before, but I would cover myself anyway by manually taking a backup of the VM and the IPO just in case, but yes using the config file wouldnt recreate anything on the VM side of things.

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[effectivecommunicat]

Thanks Pepp77!

effectivecommunicat
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[tlpeter]

I would use the VMWare converted for this.
You can pull a working solution and move it to the new server.
Licensing is the biggest problem in this case.

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