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Cutover Timeout recommended settings
Hello I'm trying to migrate a server to Azure. I'm in the cutover phase, it has a default timeout of 2880 minutes, which is 48 hours. Personally I can't have a file server "offline" for 48 hours d...
Ah good - I was worried our cancel at the 1 hour work was totally being ignored. I think our UI could be much more clear here, that’s good feedback.
We intentionally prevent the source from keeping the same IP address because many apps/scripts/users will continue to talk to the decommissioned source after cutover. In the new feature where you can skip migration of the network we will still require that. But we’re thinking of adding a 3rd “do nothing at all here and let admins operate at their own risk” mode.
If you try this again, if you get to the 44% phase, set the destination VMs IP back to working and let it register DNS, then the migration should start working within the dns replication and timeouts. We have that overall cutover timeout so high because many environments will not have converged their AD and DNS for many hours.
Do you have a screenshot of what you mean about the validate?
We intentionally prevent the source from keeping the same IP address because many apps/scripts/users will continue to talk to the decommissioned source after cutover. In the new feature where you can skip migration of the network we will still require that. But we’re thinking of adding a 3rd “do nothing at all here and let admins operate at their own risk” mode.
If you try this again, if you get to the 44% phase, set the destination VMs IP back to working and let it register DNS, then the migration should start working within the dns replication and timeouts. We have that overall cutover timeout so high because many environments will not have converged their AD and DNS for many hours.
Do you have a screenshot of what you mean about the validate?
Ok, I'll test it again,
I've attached screens of the Validate source and destination devices step of the cutover wizard. it says PASS.
When looking further into it the MIGRATION TEST RESULTS screen that comes up when you click validation shows a bunch of things NOT RUN, but the first item that says WE CAN MIGRATE is marked as PASS.
Oh that's busted. We should not be showing pass after not running! Does that repro every time you run validate?
Those screen shots are fresh. Happens every time...
- Hmm. Is a cutover already running when you ran this validate?