Powerfuse 2008 migration day 3
Goooooooodmorning everybody, I started the final migration day early this morning because a better idea occurred to me yesterday after I signed off…
07:15 Got up, put on my bathrobe and logged in from home.
07:30 I migrated the servers I had put aside for users to work on today. The big advantage doing it like this is that some of the most critical applications will be tested today by users in a contained fashion so if something terrible happens I should know about it today instead of Monday morning. (although I can’t simulate the exact load that will be put on the database on Monday but you’ve gotta start somewhere)
07:50 Finished the 2 servers and made them available to the farm
08:00 First users are logging in already…exciting!
09:30 Getting dressed, hop in the car and going to the office..see you in a bit!
10:15 Arrived at work, printing a list of the servers that I have to install. (I like to check off things I’ve done!)
10:30 Let us do this thing!
11:00 Finished about 5-6 servers in 30 minutes not too bad!
11:30 I can’t show everything I’m doing but just to get a feeling for the process, the most important lines in my scripts are:
- Kill the ICABar (the powerfuse installer wants it closed)
%windir%\system32\tskill.exe icabar /v
- Uninstall the Powerfuse software
MsiExec.exe /X{6C3683DE-A9F3-4BFA-BDF4-337860D52039}
- Installing the Powerfuse software
msiexec.exe /i "%installfolder%\RES-PowerFuse-2008-SR5.msi" DBSERVER=<DBNAME> DBUSER=<DBUSER> DBPASSWORD=<DBPASSWORD> DBTYPE=<DBTYPE> REBOOT=R /le %installfolder%\powerfuselog.txt /qb
12:33 Error after installing powerfuse on our Citrix Datacollector. (which is an older virtual machine)
Connection to datastore could not be established (Provider cannot be found) It looks like a piece of Oracle software is missing on that server. Not something to have a look at now. I don’t think it’s critical for the operation of powerfuse on the other servers.
13:30 Migration completed, didn’t hear any screams from users during this morning, so far so good! So Monday will be D-Day, blogpost will continue then..have a good weekend everybody!
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