EQ/OS 8.6 to EQ/OS 10.0 Configuration Converter
EQ/OS 8.6 to EQ/OS 10 Configuration Converter
EQ/OS 8.6 and EQ/OS 10 configuration files are not compatible. It is not possible to simply copy
an older configuration to a new installation during the upgrade process, as is done when upgrading
from a 8.6 to an 8.6 version, or from a 10 to a 10 version. The reason for this is that the two
versions use different operating systems and cannot read each other's file systems.
The configuration migration will create a EQ/OS 10 configuration that is functionally equivalent to
the EQ/OS 8.6 configuration in the supplied backup archive. Note that because of differences in
the object model used by the two releases, there will not necessarily be a one-to-one
correspondence between EQ/OS 8.6 objects and EQ/OS 10 objects as shown below. For example,
since servers are defined within clusters in EQ/OS 8.6, some adjustments to a EQ/OS 8.6
configuration must be made because servers are global objects in EQ/OS 10 that must be placed
in server pools before they are associated with clusters.
Configuration Conversion Notes
1. You must be running EQ/OS 8.6.0i-patch1 to upgrade to EQ/OS 10.
2. SSL Certificates are not converted. They will need to be to manually reinstalled after the
migration to EQ/OS 10 is complete.
3. In EQ/OS 8.6, outbound NAT could be configured to use the Server IP, Cluster IP, Failover
IP or the Subnet IP (default). However, when converting to EQ/OS 10, the configuration
converter will look for a subnet to which the server belongs and will configure it to NAT out
of that Subnet IP. If no such subnet exists, then outbound NAT for the EQ/OS 8.6-configured
server must be manually converted within EQ/OS 10. For the configuration converter to
configure/convert outbound NAT from EQ/OS 8.6 to EQ/OS 10, the EQ/OS 8.6
Enable Outbound
NAT
global flag must be set.
4. A Static Route configured in EQ/OS 8.6 is converted if and only if the Gateway IP is a part of
an existing subnet. If no such subnet exists, the EQ/OS 8.6 static route must be manually
converted within EQ/OS 10.
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