Originally posted by: Louis_Hicks

All,

I am currently involved in a project to transfer a number of workloads from a struggling AIX 5.3 machine to a new machine with the same OS. This is required in order to accommodate expansion, and to allow the deployment of new HA & DR software.

Due to the importance of the project we are looking at outsourcing for the skills required to achieve this goal. However, I will be required to carry out such activities in future, and therefore am trying to train up on this type of exercise. I am effectively a one man team on this, as the company I work for is just moving into pSeries. I would really appreciate any help you can offer even if it is to direct me to a document on how to approach the tasks.

There are the obvious things which I have thought about; to first create a system back-up, as well as a database back-up, and to analyse the configuration of the current system.

This where my lack of experience fails me, I am learning quickly, but have never been required to migrate a workload.

My initial thoughts where that I could create a mksysb, restore it to the new system, vary off the old volume group and then bring it up on the new system by transfering the disks. However, I am told that the current solution is on local storage.

Again, any help would be appreciated

Thanks
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