MWuendisch asked a question.
I've found a very helpful Snow documentation about " How to move databases ..." But what about the Snow Master Server Installation (or SLM Installation) if the underlaying Server will be changed! Do I have to reinstall the Snow Master Server (or SLM) ? What about the existing databases ? Are the Installer prepared for that purpose?
Hello,
If you are planning to migrate your Snow Inventory Server to another server, than its pretty simple solution. As you just need to take your license key for Snow Inventory and have connection to DB server, and you can do brand new installation of Snow Inventory on that server. You dont have to restore database, as Snow Inventory installation will recognize that you already have Snow Inventory DB on your SQL once you put SQL informations to installer GUI. So that part is pretty simple. Of course you need to ensure that everything is properly configured, but migration itself is pretty simple.
Regarding Snow License Manager, there you need to take backup of your Snow License Manage DB, than remove that database / rename if required. And you need to do brand new installation of SLM on new Windows server, that will create again Snow License Manager DB and after installation process finish, you need to restore new DB with backup that you have taken. it includes few more steps as you need to ensure that you first update your SLM to version which your previous SLM had to ensure you dont create any errors. But both migrations are pretty simple.
Hi Mathias,
Although it's possible to migrate app servers yourself, we would recommend contacting your account manager to discuss the process further. Snow's Professional Services department can be utilised to scope and perform the upgrade (this would normally be a billable engagement).
If the migration isn't successful, the solution may stop functioning and this could place you outside of Support.
Regards,
Jordan
Why can't Snow provide a helpful documentation for that? Where is a helpful PDF "How to move databases..." . Why not a PDF "How to migrate a Snow installation to newer Windows Server version..." ? Every 2 or 3 years we have new Windows Server versions and end of live situations ...
Hello Mathias,
Snow actually have document for it, but I am not sure its available here on community. You need to ask your account manager, they will suggest to use their professional services for it. Lot of useful documents is missing from Snow side... so lot of times its try and fail. :D
As Jordan says - I'd recommend going through Snow Professional Services or your Snow Partner if you have one to assist. It's unfortunately not as easy as just lifting and shifting, especially if you're migrating your databases as well.
There's a lot of things that can go wrong, and in some cases you actually need to install it on the new server, upgrade Inventory to the same version as your current one and THEN migrate the database over. You can't just migrate the database and install Snow Inventory 6, as the versions may be different and it'll have a version mismatch and stop working.
If you're also then going down the route of migrating Snow License Manager, that's an even bigger task and there's a few pre-reqs involved like getting a new license key since it's locked to your current 2016 Server HWID.
Hello,
If you are planning to migrate your Snow Inventory Server to another server, than its pretty simple solution. As you just need to take your license key for Snow Inventory and have connection to DB server, and you can do brand new installation of Snow Inventory on that server. You dont have to restore database, as Snow Inventory installation will recognize that you already have Snow Inventory DB on your SQL once you put SQL informations to installer GUI. So that part is pretty simple. Of course you need to ensure that everything is properly configured, but migration itself is pretty simple.
Regarding Snow License Manager, there you need to take backup of your Snow License Manage DB, than remove that database / rename if required. And you need to do brand new installation of SLM on new Windows server, that will create again Snow License Manager DB and after installation process finish, you need to restore new DB with backup that you have taken. it includes few more steps as you need to ensure that you first update your SLM to version which your previous SLM had to ensure you dont create any errors. But both migrations are pretty simple.