New server migration

Mon Feb 4 13:51:56 PST 2019

Well, I have never in my life used VMWARE and not sure I have the time to
learn it all etc and wouldn't even know where to start (except on Google
lol)

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 4:43 PM Walter Vaughan Jr via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> I would recommend that you install this under VMWARE or whatever floats
> your boat. I would never ever again install a server OS directly on
> hardware.
>
> Start over. I don't know what your data requirements are but if you
> created a 900GB machine, you would have plenty of space for a development
> mirror, as well as space for snapshots.
>
>
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> steelerubber.com at lists.celestial.com> on behalf of scooter6--- via
> Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:08:24 PM
> To: Scott Walker; Fairlight
> Cc: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: New server migration
>
> Just to add - I installed CentOS 7 on RAID 10 hardware RAID on the new Dell
> PowerEdge
> I have the OS installed at this point and this is as far as I've gotten
> The server has four (4) 2TB NLSAS hot plug hard drives
> I installed all filesystems as ext4 -- I allowed Centos to partition
> automatically this leaves with a 3.9TB /u file system that is ext4
> Would you recommend a different filesystem?
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:36 PM Scott Walker via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > Brian White was nice enough to help us out with this last year.
> >
> >
> > This is from my notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > CentOS Version 7  Installation Issues
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > You must have libtermcap.so.2 installed!
> >
> >  On CentOS 7 you must  first install libc.so.6
> >
> >         yum install libc.so.6
> >
> > Then install:
> >
> >         rpm -ivh compat-libtermcap-2.0.8-50flt.el7.centos.i686.rpm
> >
> > The above file was provided by Brian.  I can email you a copy if desired.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Scott Walker
> > scott.walker at ramsystemscorp.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > com] On Behalf Of Fairlight via Filepro-list
> > Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 1:58 PM
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: Re: New server migration
> >
> > My previous comments about XFS were for 32-bit binaries.  The bit depth
> is
> > important, as even 6.0.0 comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit.  If you're
> > running
> > 64-bit, you can use inode64 on any filesystem size, and it shouldn't
> cause
> > issues.
> >
> > If you're running 64-bit binaries, compat-libtermcap may still be an
> issue
> > (probably is).  I'd have to revisit that directly to confirm or deny.  I
> > remember that the i686 architecture build target did not exist in the
> spec
> > file I got from the official SRPM, but that's only necessary if you run
> > 32-bit binaries.  The package itself likely still needs to be built
> > properly, so you're not relying on what I remember as being the default
> > broken configuration.
> >
> > m->
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 11:02:34AM -0500, scooter6--- via Filepro-list
> thus
> > spoke:
> > > To clarify, this is with fP 5.6.10R4
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 10:22 AM scooter6 at gmail.com
> > > <scooter6 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just purchased our new Dell PowerEdge server that I have installed
> > > > CentOS
> > > > 7 on
> > > >
> > > > Am migrating from older Dell PowerEdge that has Centos 5.10 on it
> > > >
> > > > Is there a 'recipe book' anyone may have on steps to migrate all data
> > etc?
> > > > Can a simple copy of the fp directories etc do the trick or does the
> > > > new server need to go through fpinstall ?
> > > >
> > > > I know there are significant changes in CentOS from 5.10 to 6 and
> > > > then to
> > > > 7 but in what I've read I don't think there too much of a concern
> > > > for purposes of what we do here
> > > >
> > > > Curious if anyone has done this similar migration and what to watch
> > > > out for or best steps in order to make this as seamless as possible
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any insight
> > > >
> > > > Scott
> > > > PDM
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