Moving a CVAD farm from an old hypervisor on old storage to a new HyperVisor on new storage

[Joshua Freedkin]

I was directed to CTX140486, when I requested assistance with planning my migration for my CVAD LTSR 1912 from an older vmware cluser (which has its own older netapp) to a new vmware cluster with new storage. The new Cluster isn't connected to the old storage, so the article suggesting just to move one host (app server) at a time didn't make a lot of sense.  The VLANS are the same though, so I can leave the networks as is on all the hosts and controllers.  I am not looking for Citrix to do the work for me (I understand the difference between break fix and contract services. I just wanted to know if my overview of the process was the best way to approach it.

1. I would copy my 2 Storage disks contents (golden images, etc...) from the old netapp to a new set of disks on the new NetApp. 

2. I move our 2 Storefront/Controllers from the old Cluser to the new one.

3. I bring up the 1st StoreFront/Controller and re-connect it to the new storge disks (make sure the rights are set) and then I can re-create the Machine Catalogs from the new location.

4. Lastly I re-create my hosts using MCS.

 

This seemed like the right way in my head. 

Do I also delete my existing catalogs before step 2? 

 

Thank you for you assistance with this.  

[CarlStalhood]

Can you vMotion your StoreFront/Controllers to the new cluster and storage/

 

For MCS, you create a new hosting resource inside of Studio and then recreate the MCS Catalog.

[Robert Peck]

Hi Joshua. 

It sounds like your idea may work.

That CTX article doesn't seem pertinent to your particular case to me.

Why not build new delivery controllers and StoreFront servers in the new environment?  Then you can bring over your golden images and re-create your workloads.