About Virtual Machine Rehoming

These articles, intended for Skylight orchestrator 20.05, include procedures that will help the personnel of mobile network operators, Cable Multi-Service Operators (MSOs), business and enterprise service providers to rehome a Skylight orchestrator installation from an existing installation (source installation) to a new virtual machine (target installation).

IMPORTANT: You cannot upgrade hardware to version 21.08 or above.

The following rehoming scenarios are covered:

• Single node hardware running release 19.12 to virtual machine running 20.05 5K profile
• Multi-node hardware cluster running release 19.12 to virtual machine running 20.05 30K profile
• Virtual machine running release 19.12 or 20.02 is deployed on ESXi releases prior to 6.5.

The rehoming process entails a software upgrade. At the end of the process, the target installation will be running Skylight orchestrator 20.05. The source installation can be running one of the following software releases:

• Skylight orchestrator 19.12
• Skylight orchestrator 20.02

If your source installation is running a software release prior to release 19.12, please upgrade it to release 19.12 before starting the rehoming process.

Organization

These articles provide information on how to perform the following procedures:

• Preparing to Rehome
  Provides an overview of the rehoming process and the prerequisites before performing the procedure.
• Rehoming Procedures
  Provides the procedures that need to be performed on the source and target installations to complete the rehoming process.
• Rollback Procedure
  Provides the procedures that need to be performed on the source and target installations to restore service on the source installation.