
Approach
Thefollowingstepsdescribetheapproachofmigratingasearchappliancebymirroring:
1. ExaminetheGSAversionofthe“target”GSAandcheckreleasenotesofthisversionandofany
laterpatches,forissuesthatmayaffectthedeploymentenvironment.UpgradethetargetGSAto
theappropriatepatchifnecessary.
2. EnsurebothGSAsareonthesamesoftwareversion,havethesamedocumentlicensecountand
areofcompatiblesearchappliancemodels(seemirroringlinkbelow).Inmanycases,the“source”
GSAwillneedtobeupdatedtothesameversionasthetargetGSA.
3. Pausecrawlingonthesourcesearchappliance,aswellasanyfeedsorconnectortraversals.
4. Configuremirroring,withthesourceGSAsetupasamaster,andthetargetGSAsetupasa
replica.
5. Allowthedatasynctocompleteto100%,toensureallcontentandconfigurationsarecopied.
6. Disablemirroringbetweenthesourceapplianceandthetargetappliance.
7. Resumecrawlonthetargetsearchappliance,andreconfigureanyfeedsorconnectorstostart
sendingnewcontenttothenewtargetsearchappliance.
8. [optional]Ifaproductionbackupapplianceisinuse,enablemirroringandsetupthealready
configuredapplianceasthemaster,andthenewproductionbackupasthereplica.Letthereplica
syncto100%.
9. Cutovertonewappliance(s)anddecommissionoldappliance(s).
Formoreinformationonmirroring,includingcompatibleappliancemodelsanddatathatiscopiedandnot
copiedduringmirroring,see“ConfiguringGSAMirroring”.
Migrationconfigurationsonly
ThealternativemethodtoGSAmigrationisthroughexportingtheconfigurationfilesfromonesearch
applianceandimportingitintoanother.
Sinceimportingaconfigurationfiledoesnotcopythesearchindexfromonesearchappliancetoanother,a
fullcrawlisrequiredtopopulatethesearchindex.Furthermore,anyfeedsorconnectorsmustbeconfigured
toresenddocumentstothenewGSAaftertheconfigurationhasbeenimported.
Thismigrationmethodismostappropriatewhen:
● Changesareplannedtodeploymentarchitecture,suchasnewcontentsourcesbeingintegrated
● NewGSAfeaturesaredesiredthatrequirereindexingofcontent
Advantagesofthismigrationmethod:
● Providesabilitytocontrolwhatcontentisindexedonthenewappliance
● MinimalimpacttothedeploymentofexistingproductionGSAs,asthenewGSAscanbe
configuredandtestedindependentlybeforecuttingover
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