{"id":44,"date":"2009-01-27T00:32:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T05:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhargavs.com\/index.php\/technology\/2009\/01\/physical-to-physical-server-migration-with-firewall-transversal"},"modified":"2009-01-27T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T05:32:13","slug":"physical-to-physical-server-migration-with-firewall-transversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhargavs.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/27\/physical-to-physical-server-migration-with-firewall-transversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical-to-Physical Server migration with Firewall Transversal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A common tool that is used for X2P & X2V migrations is called PowerConvert<\/a> from Platespin<\/a>. Generally speaking the servers that are being migrated are put on the same internal network segment and therefore relatively easy to migrate. However, I wanted to examine how the process works if that is not the case and one or more of the elements are segregated by a firewall.<\/p>\n

There are three elements involved in the migration process:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Source Server <\/li>\n
  2. Destination Server <\/li>\n
  3. Platespin Powerconvert Server <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The communication between these elements is over the following ports:<\/p>\n

    \n

    Server Discovery:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    22 TCP SSH Port used when discovering Linux source servers or VMware
    ESX\/VMware Infrastructure 3 Servers<\/p>\n

    443 TCP SSL Port used to connect to the VI3 web services when discovering ESX servers.<\/p>\n

    135\/445 TCP For DCOM\/RPC communication as PowerConvert utilizes WMI when discovering Windows based servers so that no manual configuration is required<\/p>\n

    **WMI (RPC\/DCOM) may use TCP ports 135 and 445 as well as random\/dynamically assigned ports above 1024.<\/p>\n

    Server Conversion:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    80 TCP – For HTTP communication between the PowerConvert Server and the source\/target machines.<\/p>\n

    443 TCP – For HTTPS communication (if using SSL) between the PowerConvert Server and the source\/target machines. This is also the default port for the VMware Infrastructure 3 Web service.<\/p>\n

    3725 TCP – File Transfer port used between the source and target machine.<\/p>\n

    SMB (TCP 139, TCP 445, UDP 137,UDP 138) – File Transfer of the Take Control folder (i386) and files from the PowerConvert server to the source server.<\/p>\n

    135\/445 TCP – For DCOM\/RPC communication as PowerConvert utilizes WMI when taking control and rebooting the source server.<\/p>\n

    **WMI (RPC\/DCOM) may use TCP ports 135 and 445 as well as random\/dynamically assigned ports above 1024.<\/p>\n

    These ports must be opened on the firewall to allow the conversion to complete. An alternate method would be to temporarily place a PowerConvert Server in the DMZ.<\/p>\n

    References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    http:\/\/support.platespin.com\/kb2\/article.aspx?id=20341<\/a><\/p>\n

    http:\/\/support.platespin.com\/kb2\/attachments\/Ports_diagram.pps<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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