Has anyone gone from a single DSS V6 to autofailover with 2 while preserving their production data and minimimizing downtime? Or has everyone just created 2 new servers and then moved their production data after the autofailover is in place?
To specifically answer the q, it's not all or nothing. It's certainly easier to start off with 2 nodes, but you can certainly migrate to a HA setup.
If you are 100% you are moving forward, buy the other node and make sure you have at least 6 - 8 NICs. Once you have the nodes, it's really just playing musical chairs. Get the node setup. Create your targets, move your VMs over one by one until they are completely off of the original node, configure failover. Once your VIPs come online, add the portal to the initiator on a single server then migrate all the VMs onto that single server. Repeat for all servers minus the migration..
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