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

Designing and Architecting a Migration Solution

When designing the target technology platform, you must understand the degree of change required by the enterprise. Changes might be in business functionality, or more commonly, they might be changes in the service level. Within the context of this book and the methodology presented in it, the design stage addresses issues of platform technology, process, and people. The following tasks are involved in the design and architecture of a migration solution:

• Identifying the degree of change required

• Identifying service level goals

• Documenting design goals with the SunTone Architecture Methodology

• Creating a component and technique map

• Refining high-level designs

• Creating a transition plan

• Developing a configuration ...