3.2 Physically Relocating the Appliance

Relocating your PlateSpin Forge appliance (version 3) involves changing the IP addresses of its components to reflect the new environment. These are the IP addresses you specified during the initial setup of the appliance (see your Forge Getting Started Guide).

Before starting the relocation procedure:

  1. Pause all replication schedules, ensuring that at least one incremental has run for each workload:

    1. In your PlateSpin Forge Web Client, select all workloads, click Pause, then click Execute.

    2. Ensure that the status Paused is displayed for all the workloads.

The specifics of the relocation process vary depending on whether the new IP address of the appliance at the target site is known (scenario 1) or unknown (scenario 2).

3.2.1 Scenario 1 - Relocating Forge (New IP Address Known)

To relocate the Forge Appliance Hardware when you know its new IP address:

  1. Pause all replications. See Step 1.a and Step 1.b above.

  2. Launch the Forge Appliance Configuration Console (Forge ACC): open a browser and go to http://<Forge_IP_address>:10000.

  3. Log in using the forgeuser account and click Configure Host.

  4. Enter the new network parameters and click Apply.

  5. Wait for the configuration process to complete and for the browser window to display the Configuration Successful popup window.

    NOTE:The link in the popup window for the new Forge ACC address will not work until you physically disconnect your appliance and connect it to the new subnet.

  6. Shut down the appliance:

    1. Shut down the Forge Management VM. See Section 3.4.3, Starting and Shutting Down the Forge Management VM.

    2. Shut down the Appliance Host:

      1. At the Forge Console, switch to the ESX Server console by pressing Alt-F2.

      2. Log in as the superuser (user root with the associated password).

      3. Type the following command and press Enter:

        shutdown -h now

    3. Power down the appliance.

  7. Disconnect your appliance, move it to the new site, attach it to the new subnet, and power it on.

    The new IP address should now be valid.

  8. Launch the Forge ACC and log in using the forgeuser account, click Configure Forge VM, specify the required parameters, then click Apply.

  9. Verify that the setting are correct, click Continue, and wait for the process to complete.

    NOTE:If you configured the Forge VM to use DHCP, do the following after the relocation:

    1. Determine the Forge VM’s new IP address (use the vSphere Client program to access the Forge VM and look it up in the VM’s Windows interface. See Section 3.4.2, Launching the vSphere Client and Accessing the Forge Management VM).

    2. Use the new IP address to launch the PlateSpin Forge Web Interface and refresh the container (click Settings > Containers > then click ).

  10. Resume the paused replications.

3.2.2 Scenario 2 - Relocating Forge (New IP Address Unknown)

To relocate the Forge Appliance Hardware when its new IP address is unknown:

  1. Pause all replications. See Step 1.a and Step 1.b.

  2. Shut down the appliance:

    1. Shut down the Forge Management VM. See Section 3.4.3, Starting and Shutting Down the Forge Management VM.

    2. Shut down the Appliance Host:

      1. At the Forge Console, switch to the ESX Server console by pressing Alt-F2.

      2. Log in as the superuser (user root with the associated password).

      3. Type the following command and press Enter:

        shutdown -h now

    3. Power the appliance off.

  3. Disconnect your appliance, move it, attach to the new network, then power it on.

  4. Set up a computer (notebook computer recommended) so that it is able to communicate with Forge at its current IP address (the IP address at the old site), then connect it to the appliance.

    See Appliance Configuration Procedure in the PlateSpin Forge 11.0 Getting Started Guide.

  5. Launch the Forge ACC: open a browser and go to http://<Forge_IP_address>:10000.

  6. Log in using the forgeuser account and click Configure Host.

  7. Enter the new network parameters and click Apply.

  8. Wait for the configuration process to complete and for the browser window to display the Configuration Successful popup window.

    NOTE:The link in the popup window for the new Forge ACC address will not work until you now physically disconnect your appliance and connect it to the new subnet.

  9. Disconnect the computer from the appliance and connect the appliance to the new subnet.

    The new IP address should now be valid.

  10. Launch the Forge ACC and log in using the forgeuser account, click Configure Forge VM, specify the required parameters, then click Apply.

  11. Verify that the setting are correct, click Continue, and wait for the process to complete.

    NOTE:If you configured the Forge VM to use DHCP, do the following after the relocation:

    1. Determine the Forge VM’s new IP address (use the vSphere Client program to access the Forge VM and look it up in the VM’s Windows interface. See Launching the vSphere Client and Accessing the Forge Management VM).

    2. Use the new IP address to launch the PlateSpin Forge Web Interface and refresh the container (click Settings > Containers > then click ).

  12. Resume the paused replications.