
MigratingwithadistributedGSAarchitecture
InbothDistributedCrawlandServe,aswellasUnificationarchitectures,GSAMirroringcanbeusedto
expeditemigrationfromonesetofappliancestoanewsetofhardware(eg.inrenewal),peroneoftheabove
methods.Inthisscenario,itiscriticalthatthenodeassignmentandconfigurationremainsthesamefor
eachapplianceinthetargetarchitecture.
Forexample,whenrenewinghardwareinathreeshardarchitectureinDistributedCrawlandServe,shards
A,BandCwillhavetemporarymirrorsofA2,B2andC2(ie.thenewhardware).Whenthisnewhardwareis
configuredwithDistributedCrawlandServe,theymustbeassignedthesameshards(A2mustbemaster,
B2shouldbethesecondshard,andC2shouldbethethirdshard).
Thisishowever,morecomplexandanadvancedmigrationoptionthanmostGSAenvironmentsrequire,
anditisgenerallyrecommendedthatmigrationbyreconfigurationandreindexingbeperformedwhen
migratingadistributedGSAarchitecture.
FordetailsonconfiguringmirroringindistributedGSAarchitectures,refertodocumentationon“Configuring
DistributedCrawlingandServing”and“ConfiguringGSAUnification”.
Replacingafailedsearchappliance
AnothercommonscenarioformigratingasearchapplianceiswhenaGSAhasencounteredahardware
failureandneedstobereplaced.Migrationfromabackupordisasterrecoverysearchapplianceneedsto
occuronceareplacementGSAisreceived,andcanbedonebyanyoftheabovementionedapproaches.
Someadditionalconsiderationswhenreplacingafailedsearchapplianceinclude:
● Incaseswhereafailedappliancewaspartofamirroringnetwork(eg.amasterappliance),amaster
appliancemustbereestablishedfirst.Forexample,oneofthereplicasmustbepromotedtobea
masterappliance,whichthencanbemirroredtothereplacementappliance.
● TheappropriateGSAlicensingmustbeappliedtothemainproductionservingappliance(s).Ifa
GSAwithaproductionlicensewastheonethatfailed,thereplacementappliancemusthavea
productionlicensetoreceivetheappropriatelevelofsupportfromGoogleEnterpriseSupport.
Movingasearchappliancetoanotherlocation
Insomecases,itisrequiredthatasearchappliancebemovedtoanewphysicallocation.Forexample,
thismayoccurwithchangestodatacenters.
Someconsiderationswhenphysicallymovingasearchapplianceinclude:
● SystemavailabilityActionsshouldbetakentoassessandhandleimpactsofsystemdowntime.
Forexample,stoppingfeedsandconnectors,disablingGSAmirroringifconfigured,andswitching
searchservingtoafailoverGSAenvironment.
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