5.13 Unattended Product Uninstallation or Removal

Chapter 6. Migrating Hardware

This chapter discusses the migration of an existing OS/2 LAN or Warp Server environment to new, or alternative system hardware. There are several reasons why this might be desirable, or even necessary, depending on your starting point.

Some common reasons are:

• Network resources must remain available and downtime minimized.

• Minimum hardware requirements of OS/2 Warp Server for e-business cannot be met with the existing hardware.

• Hardware is not Year 2000-compliant and must be replaced.

• Existing hardware has reached a capacity limit.

• Hardware is required with future growth capacity.

• Hardware is required to exploit the advantages of OS/2 Warp Server for e-business.

• Existing hardware is due for upgrade as part of a maintenance cycle.

• Additional hardware options are required.

In most cases it is necessary to migrate existing system configuration and data to a new hardware platform with the minimum of disruption.

6.1 Preparing the Hardware