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About this document
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Document organization
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New and changed information in this edition
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Related documents
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1 Introduction
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HP Insight Server Migration software for ProLiant
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SMP benefits
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SMP platform support
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SMP components
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Planning a migration strategy
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Upgrading to SMP from SMP or P2P
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Downgrading to SMP or P2P from SMP
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Hardware and operating system support
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Configuration planning
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License verification
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Schedule preparation
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Memory and CPU resources on the application station
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Critical or hardware-dependent application preparation
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Virtual machine guest tools
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Domain controllers
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Microsoft Small Business Server
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Firewalls
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Antivirus software
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Dual-boot
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Resizing NTFS volumes for Windows migration
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File system selection for a Linux source server
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ProLiant Support Pack
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Linux Support Pack
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Related HP products
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2 SMP installation and configuration requirements
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HP SMP application station and HP SIM Central Management Server (CMS)
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Windows source servers
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Linux source servers
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Physical destination servers
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Virtual machine hosts
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Installing SMP on the application station
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Changing the default SMP application station service port number
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Accessing the product documentation on the SMP Boot CD
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3 Deploying SMP Agents
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Deploying SMP Source Agents
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SMP Agents
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SMP supported Windows migrations
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Agent-less hypervisors
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Agent-based hypervisors
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SMP supported Linux migrations
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Operating system
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Linux operating system requirements
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SMP Boot CDs
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Using the HP SIM CMS to deploy SMP Agent
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