| This chapter covers the following testing objectives for Novell Course 3000: Upgrading to NetWare 6. Use Deployment Manager to Update Your Directory Schema. Upgrade or Migrate to NetWare 6. Troubleshoot Your NetWare 6 Migration.
In the first leg of our exciting NetWare 6 CNE Update journey, we explored the top 20 features of Novell's most Internet-savvy network operating system to date. We also strolled through the five phases of NetWare 6 Installation. If you learned anything in Chapter 1, you should have learned If you build it, they will come!
But what if you are already running NetWare 4 or 5? I'm sure a lot of you are. Then what? Fortunately, NetWare 6 includes two cool options for you: NetWare 6 Upgrade You can install NetWare 6 on the same machine without losing any existing files. This type of upgrade is called an in-place upgrade. You can upgrade to NetWare 6 from either NetWare 5.x or NetWare 4.x. NetWare 6 Migration NetWare 6 includes an elaborate migration utility, not surprisingly called the NetWare Migration Wizard. This GUI migration tool enables you to upgrade NetWare 4, 5, or 6 servers "across-the-wire" to NetWare 6. However, the destination server must be running NetWare 5.0, 5.1, or 6. Furthermore, you can even migrate Windows NT 3.51 or 4 servers to NetWare 6 very cool! In this case, Windows NT Users and Groups are added to eDirectory, and shared folders are placed in the NetWare 6 file system (with rights intact). Cool, huh?!
So, which NetWare 6 upgrade option is best for you? Your choice depends on a number of factors such as the operating system you're currently running, the hardware you have, and which NetWare 6 features you plan to use (such as iPrint, iManager, and Novell Cluster Services). Of course, you could always choose to install NetWare 6 using the from-scratch installation process covered in the previous chapter. That was fun! In this chapter, we will explore the detailed steps of NetWare 6 Upgrade and Migration. Before we do, however, we must take a quick look at some important upgrade setup tasks namely, minimum system requirements and network preparation with Deployment Manager. It's time to begin… REAL WORLD In addition to In-Place Upgrade and Across-the-Wire Migration, NetWare 6 includes a third, more advanced, upgrade tool called NetWare Accelerated Upgrade (NAU). This utility is for network administrators who are skilled at troubleshooting and installing NetWare networks. Because NetWare Accelerated Upgrade runs from a Windows workstation, you don't have to have physical access to the server console, and it doesn't require the server to have a CD-ROM drive installed. This is ideal for new high-performance "rack-mounted" and/or "blade" servers. Of course, you can still run NAU from the server using NWCONFIG if you prefer. NetWare Accelerated Upgrade relies on a staging server (where the installation files are stored) and network access to the source and target servers. To run the Accelerated Upgrade, launch ACCUPG.EXE from the root directory of the NetWare 6 Operating System CD-ROM. Then, log into both the source and target servers. Next, the utility compares the target server's properties with an "ideal" NetWare 6 setup. Based on the results, the Accelerated Upgrade configures the target machine accordingly. Think of NetWare Accelerated Upgrade as a turbocharged installation. Vroom!! |
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