Appliance Migration to new 130 Hardware

[DavidWear]

I've got a current environment consisting of End of Sale hardware on 8.3 which i'm looking to migrate to new RSA 130 Hardware appliances. What is the best way to migrate? Add them as replica's to the current environment and promote? Fully export the configurations and start "from scratch"?  

[_EricaChalfin]

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[EdwardDavis · Accepted solution]

Best method is whichever one you want to do....

a) -add new replica, patch versions to match, promote, delete old (primary which is now demoted to replica), finally rename-re-ip new primary to take place of deleted system

this might be best if you have more than one replica, it keeps replicas configured

b) -make backup of current primary and restore to new server (of same version and patch of the backup) 

if you have replicas, they all become cut-off from primary 'when restoring backup from a different primary', so

more work to do re-installing replicas after this type of action.