The OES Migration Tool is the main tool for upgrading from NetWare to OES. The Migration Tool includes a migrated GUI interface that lets you drag and drop the volumes and services that you want to migrate. Terminal commands are also provided for those who prefer to work at a terminal prompt (command line). Both the GUI and command line methods are documented in the OES 2023: Migration Tool Administration Guide.
The OES Migration Tool runs exclusively on the destination OES server and pulls service configuration information and data from the NetWare source server. A Windows workstation is not required.
The OES Migration Tool is installed on every OES server.
When you run the GUI Migration Tool, after selecting the source and target servers, you are prompted to specify one of two migration types, as explained in the sections that follow.
The first option is the Migration type.
Just as the name implies, a Migration is designed to migrate the services on multiple servers to a single, more powerful OES server. However, the type is very adjustable, letting you specify only a single volume or service to migrate at a time. Obviously this lets you move data and services with absolute flexibility.
As with all migrations using the Migration Tool, the target server must be installed using the Pre-Migration Server installation pattern, and the patterns for the services you are planning to migrate to the server must be installed but not configured.
For more information on this type of migration, see Server Consolidations
in the OES 2023: Migration Tool Administration Guide.
The second option is the Transfer ID migration type.
This powerful functionality lets you transfer an existing NetWare server’s identity, including its IP address, host name, eDirectory and security components, services, and data to an OES server.
There are, of course, preparation steps to ensure that eDirectory and the NetWare server are healthy, and the services being migrated must be shut down during the migration process, but after the migration is finished, network users won’t realize that anything has changed.
Those customers who have used this tool have been very pleased with the results.
For more information on this type of migration, see Transfer ID Migration
in the OES 2023: Migration Tool Administration Guide.
The primary purpose of the OES Migration Tool is to migrate data from the NetWare platform to the OES platform. Data migration tools can also be used to migrate data from OES 1 servers. A good place to start is Migrating File Systems to OES 2023
in the OES 2023: Migration Tool Administration Guide.
If you want to migrate data from multiple NetWare servers to a single OES server, you can create a cron job to automatically run multiple instances of the migfiles command sequentially. The Migration Tool GUI interface doesn’t currently support batch migrations.
Information about transferring individual services is in Migration Scenarios
in the OES 2023: Migration Tool Administration Guide
In most cases, you first need to install the service on the OES target server. Refer to the following sections in the Migration Tool Administration Guide:
In OES, you migrate eDirectory using the new Identity Transfer functionality in the Migration Tool. See Migrating eDirectory to OES 2023
in the OES 2023: Migration Tool Administration Guide.