Upgrading from DCO 8.x to IT Advisor

Customers who are currently running a release which is older than DCO 8.3.x should first plan to upgrade to DCO 8.3.2 or newer. In this case, two new servers are required.
Can I upgrade my DCO 7.5 setup to latest ITA?.

To upgrade to IT Advisor, customers may use this method:

• Backing up their DCO 8.3.x and restoring it on a new clean ITA installation. 

Note: When you upgrade DCO 8.3.x to ITA, your Colo, High Availability, and Insight licenses are stripped out during the upgrade. See Differences between DCO and ITA

Backing up DCO 8.3.x and restoring it on a clean ITA installation

Upgrading to IT Advisor 9.1.x or newer requires a clean installation of ITA and a restore of the DCO 8.3.x backup file.

This upgrade method includes taking a backup of the data on your DCO 8.3.x server, making a clean installation of IT Advisor, and then restoring the backup file in the new ITA installation. This is the required process for customers upgrading to ITA 9.1.0 or newer.

NOTE: This procedure assumes you are installing IT Advisor on a new physical server or virtual machine. If you perform a fresh installation of IT Advisor on the same DCO server, then all existing DCO data/information will be lost if the DCO backup was not copied from the server.

Saving a backup from the existing Data Center Operation 8.3.x server

1. Browse to the Data Center Operation web client at https://<dco-server>/
2. Log in as an administrator user
3. Click the Administration menu and select the Backup and Restore item.
4. A list of backups should appear with the most recent backup appearing at the top of the list. By default, backups run automatically on a nightly basis. If that backup is not recent, then click the Schedule Backup button to create a new backup immediately, and wait for that backup to complete.
5. Click the download button to the right of the backup row to download that backup image off of the DCO server.

Setting up a new server with a clean installation of IT Advisor

See the entire installation process Installing IT Advisor

Copy the backup file to the ITA server

Copy the DCO backup file to the new IT Advisor server using one of the following methods.

NOTE: Using the web client to upload backup files larger than 1GB in size may not work properly. Use Webmin to upload the backup in these cases.

1. Open the IT Advisor web client by browsing to the ITA server at https://<ita-server>/
2. Logon as an administrator user
3. Click the Administration menu
4. Click the Backup and Restore item
5. Click the Upload Backup button
6. Browse to the location of the downloaded backup, choose the file and wait for the backup to upload.
7. Once the upload completes the Backup and Restore view should automatically refresh. The uploaded backup should be at the top of the list.

Using the Webmin interface

1. Use a browser to browse to the webmin interface for the ITA server at https://<ita-server>:10000/
2. In the left menu, select System>Upload and Download.
3. Click the Upload to server tab.
4. In Files to upload, browse to the location of your saved backup file.
   Make sure the file format is: <name><yyyy-mm-dd><hh.mm>.tar.gz
5. In File or directory to upload to, select the location on the Data Center Operation server in which to save the file: /data/backup.

Restoring the DCO backup file on the new ITA server

1. Open the IT Advisor web client by browsing to the ITA server at https://<ita-server>/
2. Logon as an administrator user
3. Click the Administration menu
4. Click the Backup and Restore entry
5. Click the Restore button to the right of the DCO backup file which should be visible in the list of backups
6. Wait for the restore process to complete