Preparing For A Server Consolidation; Meet System And Software Requirements; Workstation Requirements - Novell SERVER CONSOLIDATION MIGRATION TOOLKIT 1.1 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 12-23-2005 Administration Manual

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Preparing for a Server

Consolidation

To prepare your source and destination servers for a consolidation project with the Server

Consolidation Utility, complete the tasks in the following sections:

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Section 5.1, "Meet System and Software Requirements," on page 35

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Section 5.2, "Prepare the Source and Destination Servers," on page 36

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Section 5.3, "Tips for Successful Consolidations," on page 38

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Section 5.4, "Scheduling a Consolidation Project to Run at a Later Time," on page 39

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Section 5.5, "What's Next," on page 40

In addition, you should review the information in the following sections:

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Section 5.3, "Tips for Successful Consolidations," on page 38

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Section 5.4, "Scheduling a Consolidation Project to Run at a Later Time," on page 39

5.1 Meet System and Software Requirements

The Server Consolidation Utility is launched from the Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit,

which runs on a Windows workstation on the network. This workstation must meet the requirements

outlined in this section.

5.1.1 Workstation Requirements

Server Consolidation Utility 4.11 is installed as part of the Server Consolidation and Migration

Toolkit 1.1. If you have not already met the workstation requirements and installed the toolkit, see

Section 3.1, "Meeting the Workstation Requirements," on page

The following are additional requirements for consolidation projects:

For NetWare

projects, you must be logged in as a user with the Supervisor right to the source

and destination servers.

Use ConsoleOne

to verify that you have the necessary rights to access all source and

destination servers.

For Windows projects, you must be logged in as a user with administrative rights to the domain

containing the source server and workstation.

You need the Write/Modify permission to the domain and the Registry of the Primary Domain

Controller (PDC). You also need the Read permission to all folders and files you are copying.

TIP: For Windows 2000/2003 consolidation projects, you can run the Server Consolidation and

Migration Toolkit on the Windows server itself. This is the preferred method, especially if you have

data that uses extended ASCII (multinational characters) or double-byte character sets (Japanese and

other oriental languages). You cannot run the Toolkit on Windows NT servers.

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