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Hello AirHeads,

One of our client decided to move their ClearPass from on-premise to Azure Cloud as they are moving their AD to Azure (Azure AD). So we need a clarity of the below things

• Can we migrate the on-premise  ClearPass license to new Azure ClearPass ?
• Can we backup the exiting on-premise ClearPass configuration and upload to Azure ClearPass ? (the existing service setup is EAP-TEAP with TLS for both user and machine)

Many Thanks,

Yes, you can move the license to the Azure ClearPass server, but you need to contact support to get i enabled for activation again. Except if you also at the same time migrate from an older version below 6.11 to 6.11 or 6.12.

The backup can be restored on the server in Azure. An other option is to join the Azure server as a Subscriber to the on prem server, this will sync the configuration, except extension configuration.

After this move the Publisher role to the server in Azure and drop the on prem server from the cluster

Hello AirHeads,

One of our client decided to move their ClearPass from on-premise to Azure Cloud as they are moving their AD to Azure (Azure AD). So we need a clarity of the below things

• Can we migrate the on-premise  ClearPass license to new Azure ClearPass ?
• Can we backup the exiting on-premise ClearPass configuration and upload to Azure ClearPass ? (the existing service setup is EAP-TEAP with TLS for both user and machine)

Many Thanks,

Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the valuable feedback.

The best and preferred option you recommended is that the clustering between both on-premise and Azure ClearPass

But there is a challenge here, because the on-premise ClearPass is 6.10 and Azure will support from 6.11 onwards only.  So can we make cluster between these two different image version? 

I noticed you recommended a workaround 

https://community.arubanetworks.com/discussion/clearpass-611-cluster-versioning

Reg,

Shamz

Yes, you can move the license to the Azure ClearPass server, but you need to contact support to get i enabled for activation again. Except if you also at the same time migrate from an older version below 6.11 to 6.11 or 6.12.

The backup can be restored on the server in Azure. An other option is to join the Azure server as a Subscriber to the on prem server, this will sync the configuration, except extension configuration.

After this move the Publisher role to the server in Azure and drop the on prem server from the cluster

Hello AirHeads,

One of our client decided to move their ClearPass from on-premise to Azure Cloud as they are moving their AD to Azure (Azure AD). So we need a clarity of the below things

• Can we migrate the on-premise  ClearPass license to new Azure ClearPass ?
• Can we backup the exiting on-premise ClearPass configuration and upload to Azure ClearPass ? (the existing service setup is EAP-TEAP with TLS for both user and machine)

Many Thanks,