Migrating to the Solaris™ Operating System: The Discipline of UNIX-to-UNIX® Migrations

Implementing the Migration to the Solaris Environment

During the previous phase of the project, you produced a work breakdown structure that was used to develop a plan for this phase of the project. Implementation activities can be broken into tasks that relate to hardware and tasks that relate to software. Where appropriate, independent tasks can be overlapped in the schedule, depending on the required completion date, budget, and skill sets available.

In the following sections, we examine the tasks involved with implementing the solution in a Solaris environment.

Modifying the Facilities

Typically, the facilities must be modified before hardware is installed. Depending on the modifications required, considerable lead time can be required. In ...