If the objective of converting is simply to stop paying the RHEL licensing for the next few months until the systems are phased out, it may be expedient to switch from a full-support license to a self-support license, $349/node, rather than go through the process of converting the OS and risking downtime.
Sent from my iPad Larye Parkins 600 Turner Ave Shelton, WA 98584 (360) 426-1718 http://blogs.parkins.org/larye > On Aug 27, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Matt Lawrence <m...@technoronin.com> wrote: > > On 08/27/2016 10:33 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: >>> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] >>> On Behalf Of Matt Lawrence >>> >>> I have about 35 systems I need to convert from various versions of RHEL >>> 6.x to CentOS. There are a number of guides for doing this with a bunch >>> of manual steps that I can follow, but if I can find a pre-written >>> script it would save me some work. Suggestions? >> A different strategy with a longer life expectancy and higher total value >> would be to ansiblize/puppetize/automate recreation of your systems, and >> simply build the rebuilds on centos. On the cutover date, shutdown the rhel >> systems as a cold "snapshot." > I agree wholeheartedly with the theory, but these systems are scheduled to be > scrapped in the next 6-12 months. This is in addition to the fact that the > people who knew how these systems were built are no longer there. Everything > is being migrated (more like totally re-implemented) into a cloud environment > by a completely different team and I will be unemployed when they finish. > > -- Matt > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
