NonStop NS-Series Database Migration Guide

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HP Integrity NonStop NS-Series
Database Migration Guide
Index Tables
What’s New in This Manual v
Manual Information v
New and Changed Information vi
About This Manual vii
Audience vii
Organization vii
Related Documentation ix
Notation Conventions xii
1. Preparing to Migrate to an Integrity NonStop NS-Series
System
Using HP Migration Services 1-1
HP NonStop Evolution Assessment Service 1-1
HP NonStop Applications and Database Migration Planning and Design
Service 1-3
Planning the Migration 1-4
Assess the Current System’s Applications and Database Environments 1-4
Plan the New System’s Applications and Database Environments 1-7
Developing a Database Migration Strategy
1-8
Phased Migration Versus Rapid Migration
1-9
Selecting Data Movement Tools 1-10
2. Migrating an SQL/MP or SQL/MX Database
Migrating SQL/MX Release 1.8 to SQL/MX Release 2.x 2-1
Installing NonStop SQL/MP or NonStop SQL/MX on the New System 2-1
SQL/MX Interoperability Between Systems 2-2
Migration by Online Database Replication 2-2
Advantages and Disadvantages 2-2
Steps for Moving an SQL/MP Database Using RDF 2-3
Steps for Moving an SQL/MX Database Using RDF 2-4
Additional Sources of Information 2-5
Migration by Physically Disconnecting and Reconnecting Disk Storage Devices 2-5