Power down VApps before DB migration?
I'm running VCloud Director 1.5.2.x with a MS SQL 2008 R2 backend (2003 R2). I'm gearing up to migrate the director and VC DB's to a new SQL 2008 R2 (2008 R2 OS) server this weekend. What I'm wondering...
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You should not have to stop your workloads as long as they don't change state during the outage. stop services, move database, take old DB offline, run configure script (to update the DB information),...
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View ArticleRe: Power down VApps before DB migration?
Thanks. Just wanted to make sure. Those are the steps I was going to run through. Im not familiar with the cell-management-tool. I'll have to check into that part. Any info you can provide?
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Interesting (to me) Speed timing
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View ArticleRe: Cannot install VMWare Horizon View on Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit
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