Supported NSP system conversions

Conversion scenarios

CAUTION Service Disruption

An NSP system conversion requires a thorough understanding of NSP system administration and platform requirements, and is supported only under the conditions described in this guide, the NSP Planning Guide, and the NSP Release Notice.

Such an operation must be planned, documented, and tested in advance on a trial system that is representative of the target live network. Contact NSP professional services to assess the requirements of your NSP deployment, and for information about the upgrade service, which you are strongly recommended to engage for any type of deployment.

The workflow and procedures in this chapter address the following scenarios for changing fundamental aspects of an NSP system:

• standalone NSP system to DR

• enlarging an NSP deployment

• IPv4 NSP system to IPv6, or to IPv4 and IPv6

• single-interface NSP system to multi-interface

Note: Workflow for NSP system conversion to multi-interface includes links to the deployment procedures in other chapters that you must perform to complete the conversion. Each other conversion scenario has a specific procedure in this chapter.