Designing Your Migration

Overview of Designing Your Migration

Designing your migration is the first of five steps required to install SAS 9.2 and migrate your SAS 9.1.3 content:

1. Design your migration

2. Perform pre-migration tasks.

3. Install SAS 9.2 and migrate your SAS 9.1.3 content.

4. Perform post-migration tasks.

5. Validate your migration.

Designing your migration means reviewing the SAS 9.2 requirements (hardware, software, and migration) against your current SAS 9.1.3 deployment, and developing a plan for how to get your SAS 9.1.3 content--your data and configuration--integrated into a SAS 9.2 system.

For a discussion of functionality changes in SAS 9.2, see Special Considerations for Customers Upgrading to SAS 9.2.

For SAS solutions, see the product's documentation for additional information about migration and promotion.

One of the migration tools that SAS provides, the SAS Migration Utility, generates a migration analysis report. Using this report, you can analyze every machine in your SAS 9.1.3 deployment to answer these crucial design questions:

Which SAS 9.1.3 products reside on each machine?

Knowing exactly which products reside on which machines is essential for your SAS representative to know in order to provide you with the correct SAS 9.2 plan (required to install SAS 9.2).
Are all my SAS 9.1.3 products at the correct maintenance level?

All your SAS 9.1.3 products must be at the correct maintenance level in order for the SAS Migration Utility to generate a valid migration package for migrating to SAS 9.2.

At the end of the migration design phase, you will have accomplished the following:

Migration Design Goals and Actions
Migration Design Goals	Actions
Understand the high-level SAS migration requirements.	Review High-Level SAS Migration Requirements. Decide the proper time for you to migrate to SAS 9.2.
Ensure that your hardware and third-party software meet the SAS 9.2 system requirements.	See Assess Your Hardware and Third-Party Software. Plan to address hardware and software gaps as necessary.
Choose whether to use internal SAS accounts	Review Choose to Use SAS Internal Accounts. You might have to inform your IT department that you need fewer operating system accounts for SAS 9.2.
Verify that your SAS 9.1.3 software meets the migration tools requirements.	Run a SAS migration analysis report. Bring all SAS 9.1.3 products into compliance by applying maintenance as necessary. For more information, see Inventorying Your Current SAS Deployment.
Consider how to migrate your middle tier.	Review Middle-tier Considerations. Decide whether to enable the SAS Deployment Wizard to automatically configure your Web application server. There are other considerations such as whether to add additional middle-tier machines.
Obtain a SAS 9.2 deployment plan file.	Having a recent migration analysis report at hand, contact your SAS representative to obtain a valid SAS 9.2 plan file that represents your current SAS deployment.
Plan SAS user downtime at your site.	You will need to schedule a window of time when your SAS deployment is down in order to install and configure SAS 9.2 and migrate your SAS 9.1.3 content.

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