This guide not only helps ensure you remember to plan for everything, but if you aren’t a regular migrator (and many aren’t – large migrations, for many, tend to be a maybe once or twice in a career thing), the list also serves to highlight things that could otherwise go easily overlooked.

1. Data Center
Migration Roadmap
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Readiness Assessment and
Creation of a Pre-Migration Plan
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• Determine the scope of the migration
• Ensure the migration is viable
• Identify and recruit key business stakeholders and
IT leaders
• Agree upon security restrictions
• Create a configuration management policy and
ensure the appropriate software exists to enable it
(A CMDB – like Device42!)

4. Project Planning
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project
2

5. • Work with project planning staff
• Define hardware & software requirements
• Identify vendors that fit the defined needs
• Designate (or assess the status of, if one already exists) a central
location to keep all documentation e.g. The IT Architecture (hardware &
software), the support structure, SLA’s, and maintenance contracts
• Ensure processes and systems are in place to monitor and assess
performance, availability, service levels & capacities and otherwise
monitor the health of the system
• Create a plan (yes, now!) for what will happen to the legacy data center
and/or replaced hardware
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Migration Prep & Solution
Design
project
3

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• Gather a detailed assessment of your current data center
• Map all application dependencies for involved applications
• Create individual groups and migration plans for each group based upon
dependencies
• Ensure a backout plan is included in each migration group’s plan, and
designate a person to make the backout call for each migration group
• Create and agree upon the migration’s SLAs
• Purchase necessary hardware, software, and /or sign agreements with
chosen vendors
• Run any necessary pre-migration tests and simulations, both on
processes and target validation (ensure plans will work & new DC
equipment meets specs)

8. The Migration
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• Stick to the plan
• Ensure designated go / no – go person signs off on each
step’s completion, or if necessary is ready to make the
backout call
• Ensure designated communication channels are all
functioning and all groups are ready
• Migrate!
• Monitor everything closely for anomalies and ensure
monitoring systems function as expected
• Independently validate each migration group

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Post – migration Party &
Decommissioning the Old
Data Center
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• Validate the migration, ensure all legacy systems are no longer being
utilized
• PARTY! Then get some sleep
• Mark each system as decommissioned and/or remove from your
CMDB
• Dispose of old hardware as planned in step 2

12. Hopefully it is a long time before you have to do
this again!
Congrats, your migration was a
SUCCESS!
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13. Grab or share a copy of the Migration Roadmap
Infographic by Device42
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<a href=”http://www.device42.com/blog/2017/02/data-center-migration-roadmap-
infographic”><img src=”http://www.device42.com/blog/wp-
content/uploads/2017/02/Migration_Infographic_Final.jpg”></a><br><a
href=”http://www.device42.com/blog/2017/02/data-center-migration-roadmap-
infographic”>Data Center Migration Roadmap</a> by <a
href=”http://www.device42.com”>Device42</a>

14. Device42 is a powerful, multi-faceted solution that can play a crucial role for companies seeking to
master the complexity of their current data center and to accelerate the transition to the next-
generation data center and ultimately move to the IT as a Service model. Creating a new type of data
center that provides unprecedented levels of business value is a worthy goal. Device42 offers a
comprehensive solution that gives you visibility into every aspect of your physical and virtual data
center and offers technology that accompanies you on every step of the journey, acting as a trusted
advisor with answers to every question you have along the way. We hope this paper has made a
strong case that Device42 can and should be part of your journey. Learn more at Device42.com,
where you can schedule a demo or download a fully supported free trial. Reach out to us directly by
emailing: ITaaS@device42.com.
We look forward to helping you deliver IT as a Service.
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