Migration process

The migration process involves several tasks in both the source and target environments.

The process migrates configuration content from a source environment to a target environment. You perform the first set of steps in the source environment and the second set of steps in the target environment.

In the source environment, you create collections, define packages, create packages, and distribute packages. In the target environment, you preview deployments and deploy packages.

Steps in the source environment

Step	Description
Optional: Collect	Create migration collections to efficiently collect the configuration records that you want to migrate.
Define	You create, validate, approve, and activate the package definitions. The package definitions specify but do not contain the configuration data. You also define references for the target environments to which you intend to migrate content.
Create	You create packages from the package definitions. The packages contain the configuration data.
Distribute	You specify a target to which you want to distribute the package, and you distribute the package.

Steps in the target environment

Step	Description
Optional: Preview	If the package is in a file, you upload the file to the server. You preview the deployment to ensure that the package deploys without errors.
Deploy	Deploy the package. When the deployment completes, the configuration content is migrated and the migration process ends. You might need to do some post-deployment steps.

Step

Description

Optional: Preview

If the package is in a file, you upload the file to the server.

You preview the deployment to ensure that the package deploys without errors.

Deploy

Deploy the package. When the deployment completes, the configuration content is migrated and the migration process ends.

You might need to do some post-deployment steps.