[BBLISA] migrate SLES 11 system to Centos

[Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4)]

> From: bblisa [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of John Malloy
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 10:44 AM
> 
> I have an old SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)  that I need
> to migrate  to Centos
> 
> Both of these are running under a Vmware  host.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to do this?

You only have two choices: 

Hopefully you have some documentation on how it was configured. Ideally it would be something like ansible, puppet, chef, salt, executable documentation, that's easy to tweak for a different OS.

Barring that, you just have to evaluate what services it provides, and figure out what changes you'll need to make on the new Centos system, in order to provide those services. Hopefully this time it will be documented, ideally in the form of ansible playbooks or whatever.