Relocating your PlateSpin Forge appliance 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 Appliance Setup Procedure.
To relocate your PlateSpin Forge appliance:
Pause all replication schedules, ensuring that at least one incremental has been run for each workload.
In your PlateSpin Forge Web Client, select all workloads, click , then click .
Ensure that the status is displayed for all the workloads.
Shut down the Forge Management VM. See Starting and Shutting Down the Forge Management VM.
Shut down the Appliance Host:
At the Forge Console, switch to the ESX Server console by pressing Alt-F2 (to switch back to the Forge Console, press Alt-F1).
Log in as the superuser (root and the associated password).
Type the following command and press Enter:
shutdown -h now
Power the appliance down.
Move the appliance to the new location, set up the hardware, make the required cable connections, then power the appliance on.
Update the appliance network configuration:
At the Forge console, log in as the superuser (root and the associated password).
Update the settings for the appliance host as required. You can use DHCP, but only if a static IP lease is enabled. For multiple appliance environments, assign unique hostnames to the appliances to avoid hostname conflicts.
Update the and domain affiliation settings for the Forge Management VM as required.
Select , review the updates, then select again.
Update the network settings for the paused replications; in your PlateSpin Forge Web Client, do the following for each paused workload:
Access the Replication Settings section in the paused workload’s protection details.
Update the value to reflect the network change.
Save the settings.
Resume replications: in your PlateSpin Forge Web Client, select all workloads, click , then click .