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This chapter provides you information on how to migrate from competitive control panels to Plesk control panel.
Plesk Migration Manager is created for easy and fast migration from other, competitive control panels to Plesk, and also for migration from older releases of Plesk and from different platforms of Plesk. At the present moment you can migrate the following platforms to Plesk:
The Plesk Migration Manager can be accessed by selecting the Server shortcut and clicking the Migration Manager icon on the Server administration page. The Migration Agent Upload page will open. The Migration Manager will guide you through the migration process.
Note: The Migration Manager icon will be disabled, if this feature is not supported by your license key.
First, you need to upload the migration agent to the remote host you wish to migrate to Plesk. This can be done on the Migration Agent Upload page. On this page, please, specify the remote control panel parameters:
The agent will upload to the specified remote host and acquire its status. You will proceed to the progress page where you can view the migration progress and to stop it.
When the migration agent uploads to the remote host, it sends information on this host to your Plesk control panel. This information is displayed on the Information on source host page. On this page, please, select the option you need:
After you cleared the Select objects for migration checkbox, you will proceed to the Downloading remote host content page, where you can view and stop the downloading if desired.
Once the downloading is complete, you will be taken to the IP Mapping page.
The IP Mapping page displays all IP addresses of the host you are migrating to Plesk and all IP addresses of Plesk you are migrating this host to.
On this page,
When the remote host objects are migrated, you will proceed to the Migration Result page where you can view the migration result. This can be either the message on the succsessful migration or error messages, if any errors occurred during the migration process, and the list of objects that could not be migrated due to the errors occurred.
Click Finish to finish the migration.
After you selected the Select objects for migration checkbox, you will proceed to the Migration Progress page, where you can view migration progress and stop the migration if desired.
After that you will be taken to the Select objects for migration page. On this page, select which objects you wish to be migrated to Plesk:
After you chose accounts for migration, you will proceed to the Downloading remote host content page, where you can view and stop the downloading if desired.
Once the downloading is complete, you will be taken to the IP Mapping page.
After you chose domains for migration, you will be taken to the Select client account for domains migration page.
On this page,
If you decided to continue migration, you will be taken to the IP Mapping page.
The IP Mapping page displays all IP addresses of the host you are migrating to Plesk and all IP addresses of Plesk you are migrating this host to.
On this page,
When the remote host objects are migrated, you will proceed to the Migration Result page where you can view the migration result. This can be either the message on the succsessful migration or error messages, if any errors occurred during the migration process, and the list of objects that could not be migrated due to the errors occurred.
Click Finish to finish the migration.
You can stop migration by clicking Cancel on the Migration Progress, Downloading remote host content or IP Mapping pages. This will take you to the Stop migration process page.
To stop the migration, you need to remove the migration agent from the remote host. Thus, on the Stop migration process page, select the Remove agent checkbox and click OK. You will get back to the Migration Agent Upload page.
If you do not select this checkbox, the migration will not stop and you will return to the previous page.