To temper the little rant regarding the rather unsuccessful Microsoft migration I've been attempting today, I thought I would stick a nice positive post up. SonicWALL products have not been stress free for me at all times, but the process to upgrade their UTM firewalls has surprised me several times now.
In this example, I'm upgrading an outdated Pro 3060 appliance with a nice shiny new NSA 3500 - probably a comparable model, but that doesn't seem too relevant.
In my experience, anything running EnhancedOS can have a backup / restore methodology applied to it with almost perfect success. The assumption here is that the target device has an equal or greater number of Ethernet interfaces than the source.
I've also proved this in the case of serious model disparity - an NSA 240 successfully migrated to an NSA E5500 using this exact technique.
While, for some, this might not be anything to write home about, but for me, it's the accuracy with which this process completes - today's unit had 5 of 6 interfaces populated, some complex NAT and firewall rules, SonicPoint wireless, a variety of VPNs and user accounts. All migrated successfully and the process of installing in the rack actually took longer than anything else. 5 minutes after boot up, the SonicPoints had reprovisioned, VPN tunnels had established and it was as if nothing had changed.
Good work SonicWALL, at least your UTM stuff works fantastically. Now, if you could just make your CDP work properly, my life would be so much simpler :-)
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