Making the Migration Simple

Sun's experience with real-world migrations has shown that once you have completed all the necessary upfront planning, analysis, and configuration, a migration does not need to be carried out by the most technical of a company's support personnel. With a minimum of training, your operators should be able to accomplish the actual migration steps. In practice, where you should spend time to smooth the migration is by:

• Preparing email to end users and an intranet page explaining more details on the migration

• Sending notifications to end users when their migration will occur

• Validating the migration, once it is completed, and analyzing post-mortem issues, if any (usually this just involves reassuring users that their data is there)