Hello,
New to the community forum, and to Endpoint Protection.
We are presently running, 11.x with the embedded database on a single MS Server 2003. Our goal is to upgrade to 12.1 and have as a result, a back-ended SQL Server 2012 cluster.
Wanting to preserve the import of the managed clients, is there a best practice or recommended KB article?
Prelimanary thoughts include:
1. Backup the current Server 2003 embedded database to a separate folder location (approximate 12GB size).
1a. Backup the current Server 2003 Endpoint certificates.
2. Build a SQL 2014 cluster and import the embedded database from step 1 to have the managed clients, etc., from the backup of the embedded database.
3. Backup the SQL 2014 clustered database.
4. Build a separate server Endpoint Protection 12.1x on MS Server 2012 (Hyper V or VMware 5.1), (not clustered).
5. Verify the new Endpoint Protection 12.1x server is connected to the MS SQL 2014 Cluster and verify the success of the managed clients, rules, etc.,
6. Primarily, we need to preserve the existing managed clients and existing rules while we transistion to a new server and the new back-ended resource.