Rescued the stalled migration of a critical physical on-prem database server after the MAC addressed changed which caused the migration agent to crash due to its utilization of the MAC address to generate the UUID. MAC Address change was caused the active NIC on a bonded interface changing from the secondary back to primary. FIND…
Month: May 2025
Database Server Migration Rescue – Full Story
None of this was supposed to happen, the AWS migration was supposed to be straightforward. I had just restarted the server to apply a last minute security patch per our protocol. We had successfully moved dozens of servers to the cloud using this same process over the past several months. But on May 9th, 2025…