Migrating a Data Center Expert hardware server to a virtual appliance

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To migrate a standalone hardware server to a virtual appliance, you must purchase and apply an activation key. You must also contact technical support for new node license keys and application license keys for the virtual appliance. 

1. Perform a back up of the hardware server. Log in to the DCE desktop client and go to System > Server Administration Settings >  Server Backup/Restore.
2. Deploy the DCE VM trial version, and configure it using the hardware equivalents for the Basic, Standard, or Enterprise server from which you are migrating. The available disk space for the virtual appliance must be greater than the disk space used by the hardware server.
   You cannot restore to a virtual appliance with fewer CPU, fewer network adapters, less RAM, or less available disk space than the hardware server.

   See Deploying and configuring a Data Center Expert virtual appliance, and Data Center Expert server equivalent configurations for VM.

3. Perform a restore on the virtual appliance. Go to System > Server Administration Settings > Server Backup/Restore.
   You cannot restore to a virtual machine other than the Data Center Expert virtual appliance.
4. Apply the activation key to the virtual appliance.
5. Go to System > Server Administration > Settings > License keys and apply the new node license keys and application license keys you received from technical support.