Migration To Virtual

[JosePomares]

Hello,

We have two physical appliances.  Authentication Manager.

 We would like to migrate them to virtual.

We would like to know, what is the best practice to follow, minimum requirements for VM's and moving the fobs over also..

Thank you,.

[JamesMandelbaum · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Here is the best process to do this:

• Create a Virtual Replica that will become your primary
• Minimum Specs: 8GB (16GB recommended), 2 vCPU, 100GB HDD
• Wait for the replica to be in sync
• Follow directions to promote to Primary and remove the existing primary
• Create another VM Replica
• Shutdown and remove the other physical replica
• All users and Tokens will be maintained

[JayGuillette]

Variation on this theme would be to build new virtual primary at the same version and patch of the physical primary, then use operations console to take a backup of the physical primary, and restore it to the virtual primary.  Add virtual replica replicas as needed.

Web tiers if present need to be considered, probably deployed to cover the attached replica that would be promoted under Jim's plan, or new web tier under my variation plan.  You cannot use VMware tools to 'migrate' a physical computer to virtual as that would not be supported, RSA Quality Engineering simply never tested anything like that.  It could work fine but there would be risk in that it is not supported, so any bugs you found in it would need to be reproduced in a supported platform or system