Endpoint Protection

Hi All, 

I got some questions for the best approach to upgrading to SEP 14. Due to old server OS, we want to have the new SEP 14 consoles with the latest and greatest. My customer has the following and I am looking for the best approach to setting up a SEP 14 enviroment.

OLD Enviroment

Console A - Server 2008 + SQL Database 7000 Clients

Console B - Server 2008 Embedded console 2500 Clients

New Enviroment

1. What would be the best Hardware (VM) recommended for the 2 new consoles. Please be detailed in the CPU, RAM, Storage c: d:

2. Want to keep the same structure of 2 seperate consoles. 1 with SQL and 1 with embedded

3. What would be the best approach to moving clients from old enviroment to new enviroment. (a.b.c?)
         a. Install SEP 14 on new servers > upgrade old console to 14 >have DB replicate > setup managment server list
         b. Install SEP 12 on new servers > DB Replicate > Setup Management Server List > Upgrade to 14
         c: other?
 

Thank you for your input

1) SEPM console dosen't do much work like SCCM, on  a VM for 7K clients, I would set it for 8GB RaM and dual core.

Intel Pentium Dual-Core or equivalent minimum.

Note: Intel Itanium IA-64 processors are not supported.

 
Physical RAM

2 GB RAM available minimum; 4 GB RAM or more available recommended.
Note: Your Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager server may require additional RAM depending on the RAM requirements of other applications that are already installed.

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH230602.html

For 3) Install a new server, have the management server list set, move the clients, then Upgrade.