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Double-Take Move Change Request Template

 

01 - Approval: Approve Change Request

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with its remaining activities

02 - Prepare Source Server

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Sequential

Definition—This is a parent activity. The following child activities (marked as child after the activity name) will be executed sequentially in order to prepare the source server for migration. When all of the child activities are completed or skipped, this activity will be marked as Completed automatically and the corresponding Prepare Source Server Service Request activity will be marked as Completed.

 

01 - Runbook: Set Options for Migration (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to analyze the options selected for migration and sets some of the remaining tasks to Skipped depending on which options were selected in the Service Offering.

02 - Runbook: Check for VMware Tools Install (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to check the source server to see if VMware Tools is installed. This activity may get set to skipped automatically by the previous activity depending on if the source is being migrated using the VMware to Hyper-V Service Offering. If VMware Tools is not installed on the source server, it will mark Approve Uninstall of VMware Tools and Uninstall VMware Tools activities to skipped.

03 - Runbook: Check Double-Take Install (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to check if the source server has Double-Take installed and verifies that it is licensed properly for Double-Take Move migrations. If Double-Take is installed and licensed properly, it will set the Approve Install of Double-Take and the Install Double-Take activities to skipped.

04 - Runbook: Take Snapshot of Source Server (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to take a disk only (not memory) snapshot of a VMware source server. This activity will be set to skipped automatically by the Set Options for Migration activity if the source server is not VMware.

05 - Approval: Approve Uninstall of VMware Tools (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with its remaining activities.

06 - Runbook: Uninstall VMware Tools (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to uninstall VMware Tools. VMware Tools has the potential to cause problems on the migrated server so it is best to remove it before the server is replicated to Hyper-V. As part of the VMware Tools uninstall process, it is likely that the server will need to be rebooted. The uninstall process will not reboot the server automatically. The Check for pending reboot on Source Server activity will verify if a reboot is necessary.

07 - Approval: Approve Install Double-Take (Installs .Net 3.5.1 if necessary) (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with the remaining activities. This activity would be skipped automatically if the Check Double-Take Install activity determines that Double-Take is installed and licensed properly for Move Migrations.

08 - Runbook: Install Double-Take (Installs .Net 3.5.1 if necessary) (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to install Double-Take and/or license and activate the installation. This activity would be skipped automatically if the Check Double-Take Install activity determines that Double-Take is installed and licensed properly for Move Migrations.

09 - Runbook: Check for pending reboot on Source Server (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to check if there are any pending reboots on the source server due to uninstalling VMware Tools or installing Double-Take. If a reboot is not necessary, the Approve Reboot and Reboot Server activities will be skipped.

10 - Approval: Approve Reboot (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with the remaining activities. This activity would be skipped automatically if the Check for pending reboot on Source Server activity determines that a reboot is not necessary.

11 - Runbook: Reboot Server (Child)

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to reboot the source server. This activity would be skipped automatically if the Check for pending reboot on Source Server activity determines that a reboot is not necessary.

 

03 - Prepare Target Server

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Sequential

Definition—This is a place holder for future expansion.

04 - Runbook: Replicate Server Using Double-Take

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to initiate the Double-Take Move replication job and it waits for the initial replication to be completed before marking this activity to completed. Once completed, the corresponding Service Request activity is marked as Completed.

05 - Approval: Approve Test Cutover

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with the remaining activities.

06 - Runbook: Test Cutover Server

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type— Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to initiate a test cutover of the source server. This will start the replica virtual server on Hyper-V with networking disabled allowing users to verify that the server is working properly. Note that a full remirror will be required after if test cutover is executed.

07 - Manual: Verify Migrated Server Integrity

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Manual*

Definition—This activity must be marked completed manually from within Service Manager before remaining activities will proceed.

08 - Approval: Approve Undo Test Cutover

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with the remaining activities. This activity will be skipped automatically if the Test Cutover Server activity has been skipped.

09 - Runbook: Undo Test Cutover

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to undo the test cutover. This will require that the source and target servers to be resynchronized which can take a considerable amount of time. The corresponding Service Request activity will be marked as Completed. This activity will be skipped automatically if the Test Cutover Server activity has been skipped.

10 - Approval: Approve Live Cutover

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with the remaining activities. The source server will be shut down and the replica virtual machine will be started on the Hyper-V host.

11 - Runbook: Live Cutover Server

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to do a live cutover of the source server. This will shutdown the source server and start up the replica virtual machine on the Hyper-V host. The corresponding Service Request activity will be marked as Completed.

12 - Runbook: Delete Double-Take Job

Default Action—Unskipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to delete the Double-Take job which was used to replicate the server. This is just a cleanup operation and will not have any impact on the migrated server.

13 - Manual: Verify Migrated Server

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Manual*

Definition—This activity must be marked completed manually from within Service Manager before remaining activities will proceed.

14 - Approval: Approve Deletion of Source Server

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with the remaining activities.

15 - Runbook: Delete Source Server

Default Action— Skipped

Activity Type—Manual

Definition—Triggers an Orchestrator runbook to delete the source virtual machine if it was running on a VMware host.

16 - Approval: Verify Migration Success

Default Action—Skipped

Activity Type—Review*

Definition—Requires approval within Service Manager before the Change Request continues with the remaining activities.