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Introduction

This section describes how to migrate your HP Alpha system to CHARON-AXP. We will use a sample HP AlphaServer ES40 system running OpenVMS to demonstrate the migration procedure. The process is similar for all CHARON-AXP models.

Creating CHARON Virtual Machine

As a first step it is required to create a CHARON Virtual Machine (VM) using the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager in the following way:

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Collecting information about the source HP Alpha system

The next step is to determine the exact configuration of the HP Alpha hardware in order to create the CHARON VM configuration file.

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Creation of the CHARON-AXP configuration file

Using the above information, the following parameters and values can be set in the configuration file:

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Making disk images

In our example, the mapping of the KZPBA SCSI controller include disk and tape images. The tape images have not to be manually created whereas the disk images have to be created as described below.

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Installation of HP Alpha operating system

The next step is to transfer the data from the source HP Alpha system to CHARON-AXP. The easiest way to do this is via backup over the network but for this operation a bootable network-enabled operating system on a CHARON-AXP disk image or physical disk is needed.

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Making remote backups

Now we are ready to create the disk backups of the source HP Alpha system on the CHARON VM.

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Restore backups to CHARON-AXP disks

The savesets have now to be restored on their corresponding virtual disks. Login to the CHARON VM guest OS and issue this sequence of commands:

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Alternative ways of data transfer

Some alternative methods of data transfer are also possible. For example:

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