Moving from Windows to appliance

With vRO 7, the Windows install of Orchestrator doesn't exist anymore. This recipe discusses how to move an existing Windows Orchestrator installation to the appliance.

Getting ready

We need an Orchestrator installed on Windows.

Download the same version of the Orchestrator appliance as you have installed in the Windows version. If needed, upgrade the Windows version to the latest possible one.

How to do it...

There are three ways; using the migration tool, repointing to an external database, or exporting/importing the packages.

Migration tool

There is a migration tool that comes with vRO7 that allows you to pack up your vRO5.5 or 6.x install and deploy it into a vRO7. The migration tool works on Windows and Linux. It ...

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