[rt-users] Moving RT from sparc to x86 OS on VMWare?

[Randy Millis (lists account)]

We are looking at moving our RT server from a SPARC Sunblade 150 running Solaris 9 over to an x86 OS on a VMWare ESX virtual infrastructure node.

Anyone done this?

Any comments?

I'm looking to answer a few things:

Which OS would I be better off using in terms of ease of setup and performance / cost / support:

- Fedora Core 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (update 1)
- Solaris 10 x86

Any ideas on how to migrate from on RT release (3.0.3) on SPARC over to the new OS / platform and RT 3.4.2?

I was thinking:

- Install a minimal OS on the new Virtual node
- Satisfy RT 3.4.2 dependencies
- Install and configure 3.0.3 on the new virtual node
- Copy the existing 3.0.3 database over and test
- Upgrade to 3.4.2
- Cut over the from the SPARC to the new virtual node

Any comments / suggestions?
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