Good day, everyone,
I am seeking assistance in identifying the best method for migrating to new hardware.
Current Environment:
- DC-A to DC-B bi-directional Veeam replication
- Old HP servers running Veeam
- Old HP StoreOnce appliances used as Catalyst repositories
New Hardware:
- New HP servers and HPE StoreOnce appliances procured
Requirements:
- Build two sets of new Veeam/HPE StoreOnce environments at DC-A
- Migrate old DC-A Veeam/HPE StoreOnce to new DC-A Veeam/HPE StoreOnce
- Migrate old DC-B Veeam/HPE StoreOnce to new DC-B Veeam/HPE StoreOnce
- Establish bi-directional Veeam replication between the new environments
- Decommission old Veeam/HPE StoreOnce hardware once backup and restore jobs are validated
Based on my previous experience with Veeam/Data Domain migrations, I have outlined the following proposed migration strategy for HPE StoreOnce Catalyst repositories. I would appreciate your input to validate this approach:
- Use HPE StoreOnce native Catalyst copy replication to replicate both repositories from old DC-A HPE StoreOnce to new DC-A HPE StoreOnce; also replicate both repositories from old DC-A HPE StoreOnce to new DC-B HPE StoreOnce.
- Restore old DC-A Veeam configuration backup to the new DC-A Veeam server.
- Restore old DC-B Veeam configuration backup to the new DC-B Veeam server.
- Detect Catalyst repositories on new Veeam servers via repository scan.
- Ship new DC-B Veeam/HPE StoreOnce from DC-A to DC-B location.
- Disable jobs on old DC-A Veeam and enable jobs on new DC-A Veeam.
- Disable jobs on old DC-B Veeam and enable jobs on new DC-B Veeam.
- Update replication targets on new DC-A and DC-B Veeam servers and synchronize bi-directional replication.
- Validate backup and restore operations.
- Decommission old DC-A and DC-B Veeam/HPE StoreOnce hardware.
Please let me know if this strategy aligns with best practices or if you have any recommendations for improvement.
Thank you for your guidance.
