Creating a Migration Task

Prerequisites

• You have completed operations in Preparing for Migration.
• You have completed operations in Setting Up an IPv6 Network and Creating a Target Server.

Constraints

• The account used for migration must have sufficient balance.
• For a migration over an IPv6 network, Migration Rate Limit, Continuous Synchronization, Measure Network Performance, and Proxy Servers are unavailable.

Procedure

1. Install the Agent that matches the source server OS.
   • Install the Linux Agent.
   • Install the Windows Agent.

2. Configure the target server.

   In the Advanced Settings area on the Configure Basic Settings page, set IP Address Version to IPv6.

   

   On the Configure Target page, select Use existing for Server and select the server created in Setting Up an IPv6 Network and Creating a Target Server.

   

3. Start the full replication, and launch the target server.
4. (Optional) Synchronize incremental data from the source server to the target server by using the Sync option on the SMS console.