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18 CATIA and Enova migration AIX 4.3 to AIX 5L Version 5.1
4.1 Hardware layout
To cover the most common installed hardware configurations used in several customer
environments, the layout shown in Figure 4-1 was chosen to perform the migration tasks.
The final hardware in customer implementation will vary, and if there is no additional, exotic,
or non-IBM hardware implemented, the migration steps will run without any problems. Keep in
mind that it is not possible to document all customer migrations such as those using OEM
hardware components for networking, or individual OEM devices such as tapes.
Figure 4-1 Migration hardware used
During our migration testing we used the following software products installed on the CATIA
clients and the F80 Server:
AIX Version 4.3.3 with Maintenance Level 10
CATIA Version 4.2.4 Refresh 2
CATIA Version 5 Release 12
EDNOVIA 3D Portal Server Verion 5 Release 12
We have migrated the AIZ operating system level to AIX 5L Version 5.1 with Maintenance
Level 5. Both CATIA versions and the EDNOVIA 3D Portal Server products ran well after the
migration.
4.2 Migration using NIM
We selected NIM for the test migration. With NIM we could do the migration in a singe step
without changing AIX base operating CDs, the AIX bonus pack CD, AIX expansion pack CDs,
AIX documentation CDs, compiler CDs, and maintenance level CDs. In other words, a lot of
time sitting in front of the servers was saved by this remote process, and we feel it will be
saved for you as well.
9114-275
AIX 4.3.3
GXT6500
NIM Master
NIS Slave
7044-170
AIX 4.3.3
GXT4500
CATIA Client
9112-265
AIX 4.3.3
GXT4000
CATIA Client
7025-F80
AIX 4.3.3
GXT130
NFS Server
NIS Master
ENOVIA 3d
Portal server
9114-275
AIX 4.3.3
GXT6500
NIM Master
NIS Slave
7044-170
AIX 4.3.3
GXT4500
CATIA Client
9112-265
AIX 4.3.3
GXT4000
CATIA Client
7025-F80
AIX 4.3.3
GXT130
NFS Server
NIS Master
ENOVIA 3d
Portal server