Hi guys, can you tell me the right way to do this migration, keep in mind that the network name needs to be the same
Actually this is my scenario
I have a two node windows 2003 64 bit clustered with a file server group resource: disk, Ip, network name and file shares.
the clustered network name is also kerberos authenticated, so the network name is present as a computer object in our windows 2000 AD Domain. (let's say network name for example SRVFS01)
I already prepared on a 2 node windows server 2008 EE R2 a new resource group which contains a new network name let's say for example SRVFS01_New
1)I need to migrate all folders from SRVFS01 to SRVFS01_New (using robocopy or whatever)
2)After the sync I need then to rename the the network name SRVFS01_New to SRVFS01, to do so I need to put offline the old cluster SRVFS01 resource.
from now on I have some doubts.
just Putting offline the old cluster resource, it will not delete the SRVFS01 Computer object. So probably if I can't reuse it I need to delete it manually and wait for the AD replication,after deleting the old cluster group
After this I will:
3)Change DNS records, mapping the old network name to the SRVFS01_New Ip address, because this will be the ip address of the migrated server
4)Put offline the new Cluster windows 2008 SRVFS01_new and rename the cluster with the old name SRVFS01.Renaming the fsgroup named SRVFS01_new to the SRVFS01 changing the network name and binding it again to the ip address.
I know that windows server 2008 will create a VNO object in AD, in the computer container, this is automatically done and cannot be chosen, as 2003.This object will have the network name SRVFS01
5) Wait for the ad replication and then put the created resource online.
Is this the right way of doing this or there is some best practice, to avoid issues related to CAP?
Thanks