Chapter 7. Implementing a Migration

With a successful prototype of the target environment in place, you are ready to implement the migration. This chapter describes the steps involved in migrating the current environment to the target environment. The majority of this chapter focuses on porting, moving, and testing activities of the migration methodology introduced earlier in the book.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• "Porting an Application to a New Operating System" on page 107

• "Migrating Data" on page 117

• "Creating the Production Environment" on page 124

• "Testing the Migrated Environment" on page 126

• "Refining and Documenting Your Migration Methodology" on page 131

• "Training End Users and Staff" on page 132