Migrate Novell Open Enterprise OS 6.5 to VMWare ESXi VM

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Install Novell 6.5 OS on a physical machine

To install Novell 6.5 OS on a physical machine use:

  1. Boot with the CD
  2. Choose "Select this line to install in english"
  3. Select modify and change country, then select continue
  4. Using F10 key, accept license agreement twice
  5. Choose default install and select continue
  6. Choose continue at partitions page
  7. Select "Basic netware file server" and choose next
  8. select "copy files" in next screen
  9. Insert second prod disk and select "OK"
  10. Enter server name "server1"
  11. choose IP protocol and enter "IPaddress", "subnet mask", "gateway" and select next
  12. Enter details like hostname, domain and nameserver details, select next
  13. Select time server and select next
  14. select "Create a new edirectory tree"
  15. Enter tree name "RnD"
  16. Enter context for server object "Object1"
  17. Enter administrator password
  18. select next
  19. select "Install without licensed" and select "next"
  20. select next
  21. Reset your server now? Yes


Migrate Novell 6.5 from Physical to Virtual on vSphere

To migrate Novell 6.5 from Physical to Virtual on vSphere as ESXi 4.0 compatible VM use following steps:

  1. Download offficial Novell Open Enterprise 6.5 from Microfocus site using our partner credentails.
    For downloading Novell NetWare 6.5, use below link, login with Suse partner logins
  2. Install Novell Open Enterprise 6.5 using installer DVD on a physical machine.
    • Example installation process is explained above. This machine would be migrated to virtual using further steps.
    • If you want to install NetWare 6.5 using CD, then download below iso's
      • NW65OSSP8a.ISO
      • NW65PRODSP8.ISO
    • Or, if you are using DVD, then use below link
      • NW65SP8_OVL_DVD.iso
  3. Reboot Novell 6.5 physical machine and boot using latest System Rescuce CD.
  4. Use below link for downloading system rescue cd
  5. Setup system rescue CD for remote access using (ifconfig <device> <IP> mask <netmask>, route add default gw <gw>, passwd, echo "nameserver 4.2.2.2" > /etc/resolv.conf etc.) steps
  6. On intermediate machine CentOS 7 admin station use following: 
    nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=novell65.raw
  7. On source Novell 6.5 system booted using system rescue CD to copy raw image to a intermediate admin machine use: 
    dd if=/dev/sda ibs=40960000 | nc <target-ip> 9000
  8. Create another copy of novell65.raw for backup 
    cp novell65.raw bknovell65.raw
  9. Create a VMWare ESXi 4.0 compatible VM with Novell 6.5 OS with:
    1. SCSI controller should be of type LSI Logic Parallel.
    2. Local Hard Disk should be SCSI and made slightly larger than the source physical servers disk
      In this example the source servers disk is 36GB so create a 40GB virtual disk.
      It is very important for this disk to be SCSI. If required delete existing disk and add a new SCSI disk.
    3. The virtual network adaptor should be created as a “Flexible” adaptor. This might require deleting existing NIC and adding a new NIC.
    4. Amount of RAM should be the same as the source physical server
  10. Boot VMWare ESXi 4.0 VM with system rescue CD from datastore and again dd image from intermediate machine to VM's SCSI disk. 
    dd if=novell65.raw | nc 192.168.1.171 9000   #On CentOS 7 intermediate machine
    Then on ESXi 4.0 VM use: 
    nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=10485760
  11. Shutdown the VM after cloning and disconnect system rescude CD from VM before starting it again.
  12. Boot Novell 6.5 ESXi VM without system-rescue-cd connected and press 'Esc' to interrupt automatic OS boot. This should take to C:\NWServer> folder with cmd. Edit startup.ncf using edit and append following driver configuration: 
    LOAD SCSIHD.CDM
    

    LOAD IDEATA.HAM SLOT=10004
    

    LOAD LSIMPTNW.HAM SLOT=2
    Unless we do this SCSI disk will not get detected. We can use: 
    nss pools
    

    nss volumes
    

    nss spaceinformation
    etc. to see if hard-disk is getting detected properly or not.
  13. Start server with server -na option to allow launching hdetect from graphical console. After server graphical console starts open a text console window. Use hdtect command.
  14. On storage and Network device driver screen NIC driver needs to be changed. Modify network driver and select "CNEAMD.LAN: Novell Ethernet PCNetPCI, PCnetPCI_II, PCnet-Fast". After selecting this driver go to "Configure Protocols" and then "Configure IP Protocols" for this driver. The driver attempts to take DHCP IP and then fails. If DHCP IP fails then static IP option is presented and we can configure IP address, netmask and gateway. After configuring this save and close all network related dialog boxes in revese order of opening them.
  15. Reboot the machine and verify that both incoming ping to IP configured during protocol configuration and outgoing ping to gateway, etc. from Novell machine are working. Ping using sys:/bin/bash



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