Dell ThinOS 10.x Migration Guide

Migrating ThinOS 9.x policies to ThinOS 10.x using WMS

Learn how WMS admins migrate ThinOS 9.x group configurations to ThinOS 10.x using the Policy Migration Wizard, ensuring smooth transfer and consistent policies.

• Enhancement in UI for WMS Groups & Configs provides Migrate ThinOS 9.x policies to ThinOS 10.x policies migration link for a group. This feature is useful when ThinOS 9.x configurations are present and ThinOS 10.x configurations are not configured.
• WMS admin can use Migrate ThinOS 9.x policies to ThinOS 10.x policies feature to migrate all the group configuration from ThinOS 9.x to ThinOS 10.x. This feature also works for Select groups and to migrate child groups.
• The ThinOS 9.x to ThinOS 10.xconfiguration migration wizard displays warnings for ThinOS 9.x applications packages if the equivalent ThinOS 10.x packages are not present in WMS.
  • For WMS cloud customers, ThinOS 10.x packages are uploaded to the Operator cloud.
  • For WMS on-premises Server customers, ensure uploading ThinOS 10.x packages manually to the on-premises repository to avoid getting the migration wizard warnings.
• For configuring ThinOS 10.x configurations on a group from Groups & Configs UI using Edit Policy. When the ThinOS 9.x configurations are already present in the group, WMS displays a message. You can choose to use Policy Migration Wizard or proceed with configuring ThinOS 10.x configurations.
• WMS admin can check the option Do not ask me again and open the ThinOS 10 Configuration page. to disable the configuration wizard.
• WMS admin can enable the configuration wizard by following these steps: .
  • Go to User Preferences > Policies.
  • Select the checkbox: Ask me if I want to use the ThinOS 10.x Policy Migration Wizard.