Preparing your source environment
Before you begin the steps for migration, you must perform some critical tasks on your source environment, such as creating back ups, installing the latest cumulative fix and one of the two most recent fix packs, and disabling automatic synchronization if you are migrating a cluster. Review the topics in this section, and perform the required tasks to ensure that your source environment remains functional and the migration completes successfully.
Before you begin
Important: If you are using locahost in
the database URL, update the URL to use the actual database server
host name before you continue with your migration.
For more details on preparing your source environment, review the following topics in this section and the Roadmaps for migration.