Migration of vSZ from KVM to VMware
Summary
This article contains procedure for migrating vSZ on a KVM host machine to a VMware machine.Question
What is the procedure to migrate vSZ from a KVM host to a VMware host?Customer Environment
vSZ managed wireless network.Resolution
You can typically use a converter tool available from the VMWare website for this type of migration. If you rather prefer not to deal with a tool, please follow the procedure below:1. Backup configuration of the vSZ hosted on a KVM machine first.
2. Create a new instance on VMware for the vSCG install.
- Latest OVA can be downloaded from https://support.ruckuswireless.com/software?filter=63#firmwares
- Minimum system requirements can be obtained from the Getting Started Guide available at https://support.ruckuswireless.com/documents?filter=63#documents
3. Finish the initial install.
4. Restore configuration using the backup taken in step # 1 above. Wait until all services restart which can take upto 15 minutes.
5. RMA existing licenses on KVM so they can be transferred to the VMware based vSZ. This can be done using the "LiMAN" tool on the https://support.ruckuswireless.com/ website.
Article Number:
000004805
Updated:
July 01, 2015 05:14 AM (over 9 years ago)
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