The time has come where the hardware I'm running my current environment needs to be replaced. As the SQL server is operating well and one of the physical hosts I manage I am not planning on migrating that. I wanted to know if anyone has any lessons they learned during a similar move.
From what I read my current process should be:
- Collect current installed software, best place I found to collect is within the current instance and checking the licence.
- Build a replacement machines, new OS more CPU & Memory. One machine for the "Primary Poller" Orion NPA and Network Traffic Analyzer. One machine for the "Additional Polling Engine"
- Install same versions for the running software
- Export setting (?) and powerdown the existing machines
- Import settings, change IPs on new machines to match old ones, and change any records pointing to the old machines (as needed).
- Update the Solarwinds software on new machines to the most recent versions.
I have not been able to find documentation on the export/ import portions of this process, which is my I'm reaching out to the community. Does anyone know how to accomplish steps 4 and 5? Is there a better process someone has used in the the past.