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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.

Collecting information about the source HP Alpha system

The first step is to determine the exact configuration of your HP Alpha hardware in order to create the CHARON-AXP configuration file.

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Creation of CHARON-AXP configuration file

Using the above information, the following configuration can be created:

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Making disk images

In our example, possible mappings of the KZPBA SCSI controller include disk and tape images. Tape images have not to be manually created whereas you have to provision disk images, 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 backups over the network. For this operation we need a bootable, network-enabled operating system on a CHARON-AXP disk image or physical disk.

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Making remote backups

Now we are ready to create disk backups from the source HP Alpha system to CHARON-AXP.

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Restore backups to CHARON-AXP disks

Next, restore the new savesets to their corresponding virtual disks. Login to CHARON-AXP and issue this sequence of commands to restore all the savesets created in the previous step:

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Alternative ways of data transfer

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

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