During the implementation phase, you work from specifications and plans created during deployment design to build the deployment architecture and implement the solution. Depending on the nature of your deployment project, this phase includes some or all of the following tasks:
Installing and configuring the hardware infrastructure
Installing and configuring the software
Modeling users and resources within an LDAP directory design
Migrating data from existing directories and databases according to a user management plan
Creating and deploying pilot and prototype deployments in a test environment
Designing and running functional tests to measure compliance with system requirements
Designing and running stress tests to measure performance under peak loads
Developing and integrating any custom enterprise applications
Creating a production deployment, which might be phased into production in stages
Once a deployment is in production, you proceed to the operations phase of the solution life cycle.
For more information on the implementation phase, refer to Chapter 6, Implementation of a Deployment Design