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ISE migration from HyperV to Vmware

Gasper Crnugelj — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:44:26 GMT

Hello

Does anybody know if there are any recommendations or if someone have experience with migrating ISE servers from HyperV to Vmware platform?

I'm courious about first option, I know second can be done.

1. option:

Backup ISE virtual machine with veeam tool and restore it on vmware ---> is this possible? Does anybody know?

2. option:

Backup ISE config, install ise server on vmware and restore config

Thanks

Re: ISE migration from HyperV to Vmware

Damien Miller — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:15:07 GMT

Option 1 is a valid workflow assuming you have Veeam 10+. One of the prerequisites with ISE is that the VM is shut down before you move it, but this is also a requirement with Veeam too.
https://hyper-converged.com/2020/03/06/migrate-vm-from-hyper-v-to-vmware-with-veeam-v10/

You have an option three as well. You can stand up new VM's on vmware, join them to the existing hyperv deployment, then migrate the NADs to use the new IP addresses etc.

Option 4 (pretty common migration strategy). Shut down the secondary VM on hyperv, stand up a new ISE node on vmware reusing the same IP addressing, register it to the hyperv admin node which should be primary. Once done, swap the primary admin to the new vmware node, then stand up a new node on the same addressing again on vmware shutting down the old hyperv node.

Re: ISE migration from HyperV to Vmware

Gasper Crnugelj — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 06:49:37 GMT

Damien thanks, I also agree with you for other migration options.