MIGRATION FROM HP-UX 10.20 TO NT SERVER 4.0

[Tina Iliff]

I AM CURRENTLY RESEARCHING TO DETERMINE POSSIBLE MIGRATION PATHS FOR US TO TAKE
TO MIGRATE FROM HP-UX 10.20 TO NT SERVER ON OUR CURRENT HARDWARE PLATFORM AS
WELL AS A NEW HARDWARE PLATFORM. I NEED TO DETERMINE PROS AND CONS AS FAR AS
TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY AND COSTS. ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

SOME ADDITIONAL INFO: WE USE THE SERVER AS BOTH AN APPLICATION AND DATABASE
SERVER. THE SERVER IS CURRENTLY RUNNING HP-UX 10.20 AND ORACLE RDBMS 7.3.4.
ALSO, WE WILL BE IMPLEMENTING MULTIPLE DATABASES ON THE SAME SERVER IN 2001.
THANK YOU

[Anthony Goonetilleke_1]

I didnt think HP-UX 10.20 ran on Intel or Alpha platforms which would mean that
you will be unable to migrate from HP-UX to NT on your current PA-RISC
architecture. If you are using a completely different hardware platforms well
there is no magical tool its simply logical things that you might be able to
do.

- Write a script to get /etc/passwd on the unix machine and convert it to a
text file that addusers.exe likes on NT, this way it will save you from having
to key in users manually especially if you have a lot.
- Your hosts file can be simply copied over make sure you do the UNIX-PC LF/CR
conversion on the text file.
- Oracle and other apps will obviously have to have the equivalent NT versions.
You should be able to do a database export of the Oracle data from Unix and
import it into NT but the DB structures will have to be created first.
- If you do a "showmount -e unixhostname" you will get a list of shares on the
unix machine these can be created on the NT machine, but these will be
accesible only to other wintel machines unless you are running some sort of NFS
server i.e maestro
- If you install samba on the Unix machine you could easily copy all the user
data and any other files from the machine to the NT box.
- IP/DNS/Subnetmasks etc will have to be manually configured.

There are probably a few other bits and pieces but I think thats the major part
of it. Hope it helps.

regards,
AG