Customizing Migration Procedure
On the third page you have an opportunity to edit the details of the migration process. This page reads: Migrate Physical Server to Container: Prepare Server, so you can tune your physical server migration by:
- indicating your Linux distribution in the Distribution Selection section before migrating a physical server (the option is required). The Migration wizard tries to identify the migrated server distribution automatically, but the potential danger here may be its failure to do so. This is likely to make it impossible to carry out certain post-migration operations on the Container into which the physical server has been migrated. Therefore, to cut out the risk, you must prompt the wizard your server distribution by selecting the corresponding name in the Select the Distribution drop-down menu.
- choosing a user/group quota partition to migrate. As a server administrator, you might have already divided your hard disk into partitions to be used by different users/groups and set a corresponding quota for the usage thereof. Since all the file systems are copied to a single partition in the Container, your user/group quota parameters configuration may be lost. Therefore you are allowed to choose a partition you wish to save the quota values for and specify it in the Quota migration section. To do this you have to select the partition name on the drop-down menu. Note that if you have more than one partition you have allocated for non-
root
users, the quota parameters setup will be lost for the partitions other than the one you have indicated in this section. In this case you will need extra post-migration user/group, or second-level quota parameters setting up. You can learn more on the second-level quota configuration option in the Managing Disk Quotas section of the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers User's Guide.Note: Although the partition migration with quotas proceeds smoothly in most cases, we recommend that you check all the partition quotas after the physical server migration and adjust them, if needed.
- excluding paths from copying them to the Container in the Exclude Paths section. This option allows you to avoid migrating the data you do not need. You can single out such paths yourself or in some cases you will be prompted to do so by the relevant warning, advising you to exclude a certain path. The droppable path should be provided in the blank field in this section. You can add more paths to skip by clicking the
icon to the right of the field. Clicking the
icon near the field will remove the field with the path entered. - stopping the services before the migration by means of the Stop Services section. This is highly recommended to prevent the running services from modifying any files which might hamper the migration. To stop the services, click their checkboxes.
After you have done all the necessary customization, click Next to move on to the fourth page where you can configure the Container to migrate your physical server to.
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