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Last year i implemented a Metaframe XP farm at a local governement. They recently asked me to do an upgrade to the newest of newest shiny version of Citrix on their 10 server farm: PS 4.5.
After a quick glance over the documentation i thought a direct migration would be possible. The datastore was oracle 9. An oracle 8 client was provided, but was not compatible with 4.5. First thing first: migrate the datastore to SQL 2000 because that's the SQL version they have running. After a tech life of getting bit in the you-know-what through doing extra things not needed for the job this was the simpelest solution. First to install WI and license server on a virtual machine. I liked the new shiny colors (gray/black). Created a PN site and a Web Interface site and fiddled with the settings. So after a dsmaint migrain.. uh migrate the sql datastore was live. Pointed one of the machines to this store (this is not done automaticly) so it would not inflict the rest of the farm and tried an upgrade of the software with high hopes.. However, I got some error during install that i could not make heads nor tales of. After reading the administration pdf more carefully like i should of done in the first place migration was supported only by creating a datastore next to the MF one and manually enter all info. What now? Since I am too lazy to do that i invented a different scheme: Upgrade to 4.0 first. Luckily a copy of the installation CD was in my possession, so that was not a problem. That worked like a charm. Now to create a tempate to clone. From earlier experience i knew you would not take the upgraded server for that task, but deinstalled MF on a recently imaged server and installed PS 4.5 on that. And imaged that machine. Now how to point the clients to the new and improved farm? That was the easy part. They use the web interface only. So pointed the new WI to the new servers and pointed the Cname record to the new server. |
