U-Series Appliance Migration
This guide walks you through migrating from Windows 2012 R2 or 2016 U-Series Appliance to 2022 virtual or marketplace U-Series Appliance.
- The U-50 Appliance on the Windows 2012 OS, as a source appliance, is pending certification.
- Physical U-Series Appliances cannot be updated to Windows 2022. You must purchase a new U-Series Appliance.
Prerequisites and Assumptions
- Source U-Series Appliance is Windows 2012 R2 or 2016.
- Target U-Series Appliance is Windows 2022.
- Only one U-Series Appliance is running at a time.
- The target appliance is named the same as the source appliance when deployed.
- U-Series Appliance Management software is 3.3.1 or later on the source and target appliances.
- BeyondInsight is a supported version on the source and target appliances.
- The process documented in this guide applies only to new U-Series Appliances.
- No data is kept on the target U-Series Appliance prior to migration.
The process documented in this guide applies only if the U-Series Appliance Management Software is version 3.3.1 or later. If your appliance does not have U-Series Appliance Management software 3.3.1 or later installed, please contact BeyondTrust Technical Support for assistance.
High Level Overview
The migration consists of the following general steps:
- Back up and copy necessary data on the source U-Series Appliance.
- Deploy the U-Series Appliance image to create the new machine.
- Configure and prepare the target appliance to accept data from the source.
- Restore and copy necessary data from the source to the target appliance.
- Perform post migration configuration and verify the migration success.
- Downtime is necessary.
- For an active / active setup, the U-Series Appliance can be removed from the pool before migration and re-added after migration is complete. This prevents downtime for the end user.
- Windows Server 2022 U-Series Appliances can be deployed side by side.
- When deploying a new machine with the same name as the previous, if both are on at the same time, DNS issues can occur.