On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:15:10 -0500 "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <g...@freephile.com> wrote:
> I have an old server running RHEL 5.11 at a remote location that I > can SSH to via a jump host. I want to clone this machine and migrate > it to the cloud, aka Physical to Virtual or P2V, before it is turned > off and mothballed. It has NFS mounted shares that are 15TB and 3TB > which I do not want to clone due to the size. My preferred cloud > vendor is Digital Ocean. > > What's the best way to do this? Remotely. I would like to use FOSS > (XEN, KVM?). Throw it out. RHEL 5 is very out of date with many unfixed security vulnerabilities. Save your data however you want and copy to a new machine running RHEL 7.7 or 8.whatever is current. Better, use a base OS distro that supports in place upgrades. NB: Red Hat claim to be able to upgrade RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 in place but this requires stripping the OS to the bare minimum of packages and repositories first. Regardless, Clonezilla does block-level copies so you can't run it on live filesystems without corrupting data. Likewise Red Hat's P2V tools. You have to boot live media of some sort. -- Rich Pieri _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
