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Migrating WebSphere Commerce with a wizard

David Yuan (davidyua@ca.ibm.com), Software Developer, IBM

David Yuan is the Deployment Architect for WebSphere Commerce at the IBM Toronto Lab, Canada. David has been working on WebSphere Commerce since 2001. His areas of expertise include installation, configuration, database schema and maintenance, and migration of WebSphere Commerce. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and has discovered two human genes in his previous life.

Scott Guminy (guminy@ca.ibm.com), Solution Architect, IBM

Scott Guminy is the Deployment Architect for WebSphere Commerce at the IBM Toronto Lab. As a key architect on the WebSphere Commerce team, Scott is responsible for architecting the product's installers (including the base installer and fix pack installer), configuration utilities, and migration strategy. In addition to this, he is also the WebSphere Commerce Compatibility Champion and is responsible for ensuring that the product is compatible between releases.

Frances Mullally (mullally@ca.ibm.com), Information Developer, IBM

Frances Mullally is an Information Developer with WebSphere Commerce. She has experience in the electronic commerce, retail, and health care industries as a technical writer and trainer.

Summary: Migrating WebSphere® Commerce can be challenging. This quick tutorial will walk you through an end-to-end migration process using the WebSphere Commerce Migration wizard. It also provides details on each Migration wizard page and guides you in performing a test migration.

Date: 19 Jul 2006
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (1615 KB | 26 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Introduction

WebSphere Commerce is a complex enterprise application system, consisting of the following products:

WebSphere Commerce Server
WebSphere Commerce Developer
WebSphere Commerce Payments

To reduce downtime and risk, a divide-and-conquer methodology was applied to migrate WebSphere Commerce from release to release. Each product was divided into tiers: a database tier, an application tier, and a Web server tier.

To further minimize downtime and risk, the entire migration project was divided into two phases: a test migration phase and a production migration phase. During the test phase, the mission-critical products in a previous release are kept running, while migration teams practice the migration of the components on test systems. The purpose of this test phase is to learn how the application will be migrated. This allows the migration team to account for any problems when the production migration takes place.

To reduce complexity, the WebSphere Commerce Migration wizard was created to provide users with an easy to understand interface to guide them through the migration process. This tutorial will guide you through both phases of the WebSphere Commerce Server three-tiered migration process using the Migration wizard. You will be provided with hints along the way to successfully complete your migration, and gain an overall understanding of the functionality of the Migration wizard and the migration process as a whole.

Tutorial tasks

This tutorial is divided into the following steps:

Understand the WebSphere Commerce Migration wizard and how it aids in migrating the WebSphere Commerce server.
Start the Migration wizard.
Understand and perform database migration.
Understand and perform application migration.
Understand and perform Web server migration.