Implementing the Migration to the Solaris Environment

With all the technical designs and migration plans in place, it is time to execute our migration. Following the project plan, we will minimize risk by using our tested processes and having our contingency plans at the ready. In the best of projects, this phase is anticlimactic because everything operates according to tested plans.

Building the New Environment

The first step in implementing our migration is building the new environment. This is a tedious job that involves manually paging through the /etc files on the old server and replicating the configuration on the new Solaris environment. Ideally, this will be done through JumpStart configurations; however, it can be done by hand. The important ...

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