Chapter 2. Planning and Considerations

This chapter explains how to use the remainder of this book and provides a roadmap for your migration to OS/2 Warp Server for e-business. You will need to decide how to migrate your server environment, and this may depend on several factors that we will discuss in the following sections. Sometimes a migration on the same machine might not be possible due to, for example, increased hard disk or operational requirements. We will discuss when this is the case and direct you to the proper section within this book that describes how to handle the situation.

To simplify the discussion of migration, we assume you will not add new services to the server to be migrated, at least not during the initial migration step.

The OS/2 Warp Server for e-business product contains many additional functions, such as Lotus Domino Go Webserver, IBM Netfinity 5.2, and WebSphere. The configuration and implementation of these other products is beyond the scope of this book. For a more formal description of the new functions and features in this product, refer to the redbook titled OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, SG24-5393.

2.1 Before You Start a Migration Project