Architecting the Target Solaris Environment

The architect phase involves two essential tasks: assessing the current environment and designing a migration solution for moving to the new environment. In this section, we describe the assessment and design tasks for an example migration from Red Hat Linux to the Solaris OS.

Assessing the Current Linux Environment

Assessing our case study's environment is a straightforward process. At the acquired company, approximately 20 servers were being used: 10 production machines, 5 development and test boxes, and 5 standard office servers. The production application was mostly Java based, with an Oracle database. Significant shell scripting has also been used as utilities in the product, and a few Linux open ...

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