Srikanth Reddy via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Currently our FreeIPA is running as a container on a virtual machine in VmWare environment. Now we are changing the virtualization environment from VmWare to Cloudstack, As part of this we need to migrate our FreeIPA from VmWare to Cloudstack environment. I need the best approach to do this FreeIPA server and data migration. If you could point me to any articles or documentation regarding this it would be much helpful for me.
See this guide, https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/htm...
It is specifically for migrating from RHEL-8 to 9 but the steps are the same for migrating from one box to another (wherever they may live). This is of course assuming your vmware environment can network with cloudstack so you can do it one machine at a time.
The basic idea is you setup a new IPA server in the cloud, verify that everything is working. Then uninstall IPA on the vmware server. I'd probably just add 3 additional hosts on the cloud, creating a topology with the one you started with. Then remove the remaining vmware ones. So you'll go from 4 servers 5 to 5 to 8 to 4.
This does not have to happen one after another. Verify that things are running, that you have more than 2 CAs in the cloud, you can issue certs, do DNS lookups, etc. This can take days and it's fine.
Follow closely the instructions on renewal master, CRL generator, etc in the above docs.
rob