Implementing the Migration to the Solaris Operating System

The next phase of a migration project involves implementation tasks. In this section, we examine the tasks involved with implementing an HP/UX solution to the Solaris OS.

Applying Migration Techniques

Migration involves the movement of business logic (for example, code), business data, configuration data, and metadata from the source environment to the target environment.

In this case study, the various objects to be migrated were categorized and a strategy for moving them was developed. Because we were certain that the source system worked satisfactorily, the initial strategy was to copy all the objects from the source environment to the target environment. However, during prototyping, ...

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