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Migrating a source to a provisioned
virtual machine on a VMware ESX target
Use the following instructions to migrate a source to a provisioned virtual machine on a
VMware ESX target.
1. Click Migrate Server from the left navigation pane.
2. Identify the source server that you want to migrate.
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Server—Specify the name of the source server. You can also click Browse
to select the name from Active Directory or from a network drill-down list.
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User name—Specify a user that is a member of the Double-Take Admin
security group on the source. If your source is the only domain controller in
your network, the account must also be a local account in the local
administrators group.
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Password—Specify the password associated with the User name you
entered.
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Domain—If you are working in a domain environment, specify the Domain.
3. Click Next to continue.
4. Identify the target server. This is the server that, after the migration, will become
your new source.
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Provision a new virtual machine for this migration—Enable this option to
migrate to an automatically provisioned (non-existing) virtual machine hosted
on a VMware ESX server.
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Server—Specify the name of the target server. This is the name of the host
VMware ESX server.You can also click Browse to select the name from
Active Directory or from a network drill-down list.
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User name—Specify the root user or another user that has the administrator
role on the VMware ESX server.
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Password—Specify the password associated with the User name you
entered.
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Domain—This option is not needed for a VMware ESX server.
5. Click Next to continue.
6. By default, Storage Mirroring Data Migration selects your entire source for
migration. If desired, you can exclude volumes that you do not want to migrate, but
be careful when excluding data. Excluded volumes may compromise the integrity
of your installed applications. There are some volumes that you will be unable to
exclude, because they are required for migration. For example, the boot and