ADSM-L

Moving an ADSM server from one machine to another

2015-10-04 17:59:02
Subject: Moving an ADSM server from one machine to another
From: Rushton, John D [SMTP:john.d.rushton AT LMCO DOT COM]
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
We would like to move two of our ADSM servers from one machine to another.
My thoughts on this were to set up ADSM on the new machine, perform an
EXPORT SERVER/IMPORT SERVER to copy over all of the admin, nodes, etc. to
the new server and format and define the new database, recovery log and
storage volumes.    Then I would perform a full ADSM DB backup on the old
machine and then do a DSMSERV RESTORE DB on the new machine.

One question that I have is whether all of my work on the new machine
(definition of new storage pool volumes, etc  - which is different from the
old machine's setup due to more disk space and different file system names)
is going to get wiped out with the RESTORE DB - what exactly will the
RESTORE DB restore on a non-corrupt system???

There was another post this morning about copying an ADSM database volume
from one machine to another.   Is that a supported means of moving an ADSM
server from one machine to another?    If I did that, would I have to set
up
the new machine with identical file systems and dataset names as the old
machine???

Any assistance that can be provided would be muchly appreciated...
John Rushton
Lockheed Martin M&DS