It does what it says on the tin.....

Novell's Server Migration and Consolidation Utility does exactly what it is supposed to, the only improvement I would like to see if that it would move any applications as well as the file system. Took about 6 hrs to copy 600GB of data from the failing server to the new one, but it went well. Novell is coming next week to assist in deploying IDM3.5...should be interesting

Panning Out

2 weeks into this, and the first crisis starts. One of the Novell servers has been failing dramatically on full backups....as in the server panics and shuts down the the volume, kicks everyone out and won't reinitialize the external array unless you do a "reset server". This has been happening for 2 weeks, which means two weeks of no full backups...oy....

ok need a need a plan.....

Move server to SAN device and a new server with the Migration Utility....

woot....