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- Page 1 AUTHORIZED DOCUMENTATION Configuration Guide Novell ® PlateSpin Portability Suite ® August 3, 2009 www.novell.com PlateSpin Portability Suite 8.1 Configuration Guide...
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
Contents About This Guide 1 Portability Suite Product Licensing Activating Your Product License ..........9 1.1.1 Online Activation . - Page 6 PlateSpin Portability Suite 8.1 Configuration Guide...
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Page 7: About This Guide
We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the online documentation, or submit your comments through the Novell Documentation Feedback site (http://www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html). Documentation Updates ®... - Page 8 You can also visit the PlateSpin Technical Support Web site (http://www.platespin.com/support/). Documentation Conventions In Novell documentation, a greater-than symbol (>) is used to separate actions within a step and items in a cross-reference path. ® A trademark symbol ( , etc.) denotes a Novell trademark. An asterisk (*) denotes a third-party trademark.
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Page 9: Portability Suite Product Licensing
Novell Customer Center Web site (http:// www.novell.com/customercenter/). A license activation code will be e-mailed to you. When you launch the Portability Suite Client for the first time after installation, the License Activation Wizard opens and prompts you to activate your product license. -
Page 10: Offline Activation
3 Use a computer with Internet access to obtain a license key by using the Web-based license activation utility (http://www.platespin.com/productactivation/ActivateOrder.aspx). ® NOTE: To obtain a license key, you must have a Novell account. If you are an existing ® ® PlateSpin customer and you don’t have a Novell... -
Page 11: About Per-Migration And Per-Workload Licensing
1.2 About Per-Migration and Per-Workload Licensing Portability Suite licenses are sold on a per-migration or per-workload basis. A per-migration license entitles you to perform a specific number of migrations, used on an unlimited number of workloads. Each time a migration is performed, the Conversions remaining number is decremented. -
Page 12: Managing Workload Designations
Available License Keys Figure 1-2 The tab displays the license name (Module) along with its expiry date and entitlements. These depend on the license type. The Number of Servers column indicates the number of machines you can discover. This is generally the same as the number of machines that you can migrate. Use the buttons at the bottom for related license management tasks: License Manager Command Buttons Table 1-2... -
Page 13: License Splitting
Novell account, you must first create one. Use your existing PlateSpin ® username (a valid e-mail address registered with PlateSpin) as input for your Novell account username. 3 Return to the License Manager and specify the newly obtained transfer code. Click Next. - Page 14 PlateSpin Portability Suite 8.1 Configuration Guide...
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Page 15: Configuring Portability Suite And Your Network Environment
Configuring Portability Suite and Your Network Environment This section provides information about setting up user authorization and authentication, configuring your network environment, and managing your product’s default settings and behavior. Section 2.1, “Setting Up User Authorization and Authentication,” on page 15 Section 2.2, “Setting Up User Activity Logging,”... - Page 16 When a user attempts to connect to a Portability Suite Server, the credentials provided through the Portability Suite Client are validated by IIS. If the user is not a member of one of the Portability Suite roles, connection is refused. If the user is a local administrator on the Portability Suite Server host, that account is implicitly regarded as a Portability Suite Administrator.
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Page 17: Assigning Portability Suite Roles To Windows Users
2.1.2 Assigning Portability Suite Roles to Windows Users To allow specific Windows domain or local users to carry out specific Portability Suite operations according to designated role, add the required Windows domain or user account to the applicable Windows local group (Portability Suite Administrators, Portability Suite Power Users, or Portability Suite Operators) on the Portability Suite Server host. -
Page 18: Network Communication Prerequisites
2.3 Network Communication Prerequisites Machines that you plan to designate as migration sources or targets, such as production workloads and virtual machine servers, must have certain prerequisite software components installed and specific ports for transport layer protocols open. The following sections summarize these requirements. -
Page 19: Network Communication Prerequisites For Workload Migration And Protection
System Prerequisites All supported Windows Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) installed sources prior to Windows Open ports 135/445 (TCP) for DCOM/RPC Server 2008 and Windows Vista Windows NT* Server does not include WMI as part of the default installation. Obtain the WMI Core from the Microsoft Web site. If WMI is not installed, discovery of the workload fails. -
Page 20: Fine-Tuning Data Transfer Performance
Network Communication Prerequisites for Workload Portability and Protection Operations Table 2-3 System Open Port Remarks Portability Suite Server host 80 (TCP) Required for HTTP communication among the Portability Suite Server, sources, and targets. Portability Suite Server host 443 (TCP) Required for HTTPS communication (if SSL is used) between the Portability Suite Server and the source or target machines. -
Page 21: Fine-Tuning File-Level And Vss-Aware Block-Level Transfer Performance
2.4.1 Fine-Tuning File-Level and VSS-Aware Block-Level Transfer Performance You can fine-tune your over-the-network data transfer for optimum performance in your specific environment. For example, you might need to control the number of your TCP connections or impose a packet-level compression threshold. This functionality is supported for migration jobs that use the following data transfer methods: File-level Block-level with the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) option selected... -
Page 22: Fine-Tuning Block-Level Data Transfer Performance
2.4.2 Fine-Tuning Block-Level Data Transfer Performance You can fine-tune over-the-network block-level data transfer for optimum performance in your specific environment by implementing bandwidth throttling and compression. This functionality is supported for migration jobs that use the block-level data transfer method without the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) option. -
Page 23: Increasing The Size Limit On Post-Conversion Actions Uploaded To Portability Suite Server
6 For the changes to take effect, restart the following services on the Portability Suite Server, in the specified order: 6a World Wide Web Publishing Service. 6b Portability Suite Service. 6c PlateSpin Operations Framework Controller. Fine-Tuning Block-Level Data Transfer Performance on a Per-Workload Basis 1 Make sure the Block-based Transfer Component is already installed on the source machine. -
Page 24: Configuring Portability Suite Default Options
2.6 Configuring Portability Suite Default Options Default options control Portability Suite’s global settings and its default behavior. Configure the default options following installation or to reflect changes in your environment. Section 2.6.1, “General Options,” on page 24 Section 2.6.2, “SMTP Notifications,” on page 25 Section 2.6.3, “User Activity Logging,”... -
Page 25: Smtp Notifications
2.6.2 SMTP Notifications Use this tab to specify Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server settings for event and job progress notifications. To access this dialog box in the Portability Suite Client, click Tools > Options. SMTP Server Settings: Specify your SMTP server’s IP address, port, and a reply address for e-mail event and progress notifications. -
Page 26: Default Job Values
2.6.4 Default Job Values Use this tab to specify default migration job values specific to the target virtualization platform. To access this dialog box in the Portability Suite Client, click Tools > Options. Target Container Name and Path Details: These variables control naming conventions for target paths and containers. -
Page 27: Target Service Defaults
2.6.6 Target Service Defaults Use this tab to select Windows services whose mode on the target is to be different from that of the source. See “Handling the Startup Mode of Services (Windows Targets)” in your User Guide. To access this dialog box in the Portability Suite Client, click Tools > Options. Configure Services section: Lists services and their target startup modes. - Page 28 PlateSpin Portability Suite 8.1 Configuration Guide...