The migration of a Notes application platform entails transferring applications from one environment to another.
This type of migration is usually required in the following situations:
Changing servers in the context of a restructure, consolidation, hardware refresh, replacement of Operating System, etc...,
Lotus Notes domain change, re-name, separation
In order to ensure the on-time delivery of an application migration, while still controlling the costs and associated risks, a project must be carefully planned and executed, with the right methodologies and toolsets.
Ensure the availability of all data and applications and still maintain your deadlines.
Migrating Lotus Notes databases might require you to:
1 – Move or deploy your applications into the new architecture:
a) Relocate the databases
b) Correctly configure the destination servers
2 – Identify all the areas of risk, and identify all of the "references" to the previous environment:
a) Hard-coded items
b) Configuration documents (including profile documents)
c) Validate the running parameters of scheduled agents on servers
3 – Ensure a low-visibility migration without interruption of application service for users.
Guarantee a successful application migration with the Cooperteam offering!
The application migration solution from Cooperteam:
Our methodology:
The methodology proposed and applied by Cooperteam for application migration projects, is composed of six major steps:
Step 1: Kick-off, analysis of the source and target infrastructures, site-meetings
Step 2: Collection, analysis and mapping of the data on the source servers
Step 3: Preparation of an action plan for the migration
Step 4: Correction of the redundant references discovered during analysis
Step 5: Completion of the user-level migrations
Step 6: Preparation of the migration report
Our Tool-Set:
Info NSF: Allows a complete audit of the application infrastructure
Change String: Identifies and corrects redundant references to the source platform
Desktop Manager: Automatically reconfigures client workstations (Personal Name & address book, workspace icons, replicator page...)
Customer Air France
Client Requirement:
Following the re-organisation of one of its production sites, Air France needed to move all of its applications hosted on their Domino servers to new sites. One of the problems to resolve during the course of planning the project was that the new (target) servers would not have the same name as the original (source) servers.
The solution to this problem was obtained through identification, analysis and modification of all references to the original production site.
Cooperteam’s Response:
To respond to Air France’s requirements and ensure the success of the move/migration project, Cooperteam a produced a complete audit of the infrastructure concerned, as well as all of the tools required for identification and modification of the large number of references to the original platform.
Using to this solution, the move of the servers and applications was done without interruption of service to users.
In addition to the transparent migration of the applications, the audit allowed a global standardisation of the Lotus Notes infrastructure (integrity of multiple replicas, configuration and properties of the Notes databases, etc.)
