The utility dsclone (DualShield Clone Tool) is primarily used for setting up a cluster of DualShield servers. DSClone is used to create mirror servers from the primary DualShield server. In addition, DSClone can also be used to move an existing DualShield server to another machine.
Prerequisites:
- The new machine should have similar specifications as the existing machine, in terms of CPU, memory and disk space.
The same Windows OS System Type in this case means one Windows server 64-bit to another Windows Server 64-bit - e.g. Windows 2012 R2 64-bit OS to Windows 2022 64-bit OS.
You can find your System type under Windows System Properties.
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Prerequisites:
- The new machine should have similar specifications as the existing machine, in terms of CPU, memory and disk space.
- The same OS must be installed on the new machine and in a hard disk with the same drive letter.
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- machine hardware
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- does not have to be
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- identical,
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- however, make sure both machines have the same OS architecture, e.g. x86 or x64, and the new machine has sufficient memory for running the Java virtual machine.
Steps
- Download the clone tool from our support web page, to the machine, your current DualShield server is hosted on.
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