PolyServe Migration to a New Storage Area Network

PolyServe Software

 

ISSUE:

Polyserve Matrix 3.4.0. and 3.6.x

Is there step-by-step documentation for migrating the PolyServe membership partition and a mount point to new SAN?

SOLUTION:

Complete the following steps for the Membership Partition Migration:

Polyserve 3.4.0

1. Attach the new storage and present the three membership partition LUNs.
2. From Disk Manager initialize the new disks and create partitions (primary partition, no drive letter/path, no format).
3. Stop matrix on all nodes, either with the command line net stop matrixserver or from the services snap-in Polyserve Matrix Server container service.
4. Run the following command:
   mpdump -f c:\temp\mpdumpout
5. Start the Polyserve Configuration Utility and go to the Storage Settings tab
6. Remove membership partitions from the configuration UI.
7. Add the new membershi p partitions.
8. Click on the Apply button.
9. Rename C:\Program Files\PolyServe\MatrixServer\conf\MPData to MPDataold .
10. Run the following command:
    MPimport -s -M -f c:\temp\mpdumpout
11. Start the service on the node, (either net start matrixserver or from the services snap-in.
12. Click on the Apply button.
13. On the Matrix-Wide Configuration tab Export To the other node(s).
14. Start the service on other node.

Polyserve 3.6.x

1. Attach the new storage and present the three membership partition LUNs.
2. From Disk Manager initialize the new disks and create partitions (primary partition, no drive letter/path, no format).
3. Start the Polyserve Configuration Utility and go to the Storage Settings tab.
4. Replace each of the existing Membership Partitions with the new LUNs.
5. Click on the Apply button.

Complete the following steps for the Mount Point Migration:

1. Attach the new storage and present the new LUNs.
2. From Disk Manager initialize the new disks and create partitions (primary partition, no drive letter/path, no format).
3. Import the new disks.
4. Create the dynamic volumes (PSVs) and create filesystems.
5. Assign temporary drive letters/mount points to the new filesystems.
6. Put virtual SQL servers in maintenance mode, and disable SQL service monitors.
7. Copy data from old drive letters/mount points to new drive letter/mount points.
8. Remove old disks/mount points.
9. Remove new drive letters/mount points and recreate the drive letters/mount points to match the old.
10. Enable SQL service monitors, and return the virtual SQL servers to operate mode.
11. Verify that all is working correctly.

   12.Remove old storage.

1. Fuente: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=3435148&prodTypeId=18964&objectID=c01465003
   
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