what is the best way migrate to a new hardware box?

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I have a dozen of HP Proliant 360 G2 servers with various application running
on these servers. I need to migrate these servers to a new hardware boxes as
the lease has ended on these servers. The new boxes are HP Proliant 360 G4
with different SCSI controller, graphic cards, network adapter...etc. I used
Ghost 8 to clone the server hardware to an image file, then use this image
clone to the new server box. However, because of the slight differernt in
hardware, when I boot up the new box I would get the blue screen of death.
These server all running Win2k standard.

I'm sure many people running the same situation as I'm where you just wan to
move these application servers to a new hardware box but reinstalling
everything is not an option since it's involve a lot of things over time.
Any one have recommendation what the best method to do this? do you know any
tool can help with the migration? Any help would be greatly appreciate.


Derrick
 
Derrick said:
I have a dozen of HP Proliant 360 G2 servers with various application
running
on these servers. I need to migrate these servers to a new hardware
boxes as
the lease has ended on these servers. The new boxes are HP Proliant
360 G4
with different SCSI controller, graphic cards, network adapter...etc.
I used
Ghost 8 to clone the server hardware to an image file, then use this
image
clone to the new server box. However, because of the slight differernt
in
hardware, when I boot up the new box I would get the blue screen of
death.
These server all running Win2k standard.

I'm sure many people running the same situation as I'm where you just
wan to
move these application servers to a new hardware box but reinstalling
everything is not an option since it's involve a lot of things over
time.
Any one have recommendation what the best method to do this? do you
know any
tool can help with the migration? Any help would be greatly
appreciate.


Derrick
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q249694
 
You might check the HP site I would think they have something to help with
the migration.

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Thanks Steve,

Windows backup does the trick...I've successfull migrate 6 of my servers to
new hardware box. Thanks so much for your help!

Derrick
 
Derrick said:
Thanks Steve,

Windows backup does the trick...I've successfull migrate 6 of my
servers to
new hardware box. Thanks so much for your help!
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Hi Derrick

Glad it worked out, thanks for the feedback

Regards
 
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