[Discuss] [BBLISA] migrate SLES 11 system to Centos

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:43:58AM -0400, John Malloy wrote:
> I have an old SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)  that I need
> to migrate  to Centos
> 
> Both of these are running under a Vmware  host.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to do this?
> 

Install packages on Centos that are the current supported
versions of the things on SLES.

Configure them.

Copy the data across.

Test carefully. Fix what breaks.

Test again.

Schedule a changeover time.

Copy the data again.

Stop the old server.

Copy the data one last time.

Start the new server.

Test again.

Wait for user complaints to find out what you missed.

-dsr-