Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. The growing acceptance of Linux -- 1.1 Why migrate? -- 1.2 IBM Eserver BladeCenter and xSeries commitment to Linux -- 1.3 VERITAS commitment to Linux -- 1.4 VERITAS solutions -- 1.4.1 VERITAS Storage Foundation for Linux -- 1.4.2 VERITAS NetBackup for Linux -- 1.4.3 VERITAS Volume Replicator for Linux -- 1.4.4 VERITAS Cluster Server for Linux -- 1.4.5 VERITAS Opforce for Linux -- 1.4.6 VERITAS i3 for Linux -- 1.5 A world-class community of enterprise Linux partners -- Chapter 2. UNIX to Linux migration considerations -- 2.1 Complexity of migrations -- 2.2 Migration challenges -- 2.2.1 Operating system dependence -- 2.2.2 File management dependence -- 2.2.3 Endianess -- 2.2.4 Different techniques of migrating data -- Chapter 3. VERITAS Storage Foundation -- 3.1 VERITAS Storage Foundation overview -- 3.2 Quality of Storage Services -- 3.3 Multi Volume File System -- 3.4 Dynamic Multi Pathing -- 3.5 Intelligent Storage Provisioning -- 3.6 FlashSnap -- 3.7 Portable Data Containers -- Chapter 4. VERITAS Portable Data Containers for migration -- 4.1 The technical barriers that Portable Data Containers overcome -- 4.1.1 Operating system -- 4.1.2 Volume Manager -- 4.1.3 File system -- 4.1.4 Applications -- 4.1.5 Problems that Portable Data Containers do not address -- 4.2 Step-by-step migration example -- 4.2.1 Lab environment -- 4.2.2 VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.0 installation and configuration -- 4.2.3 VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.0 post installation -- 4.2.4 VERITAS Enterprise Administrator -- 4.2.5 Initializing disks for a new file system -- 4.2.6 Starting with an existing Volume Manager or File System setup -- 4.2.7 Step-by-step migration -- Chapter 5. Performance.

5.1 Data migration performance -- 5.1.1 Data collection -- 5.2 Scalability -- 5.2.1 Scalability performance results -- 5.2.2 CPU and I/O -- 5.3 Throughput -- 5.3.1 Throughput results -- 5.3.2 CPU and I/O -- 5.4 Performance comparison -- 5.5 Other performance considerations -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Best practices -- 6.1 Minimizing data migration surprises -- 6.1.1 Preventing the file system from writing incompatible data -- 6.2 Making the conversion process safer and faster -- 6.3 Calculating the space requirements of the conversion process -- 6.4 Unconverting a file system -- 6.5 Using VERITAS FlashSnap for a test migration -- 6.5.1 Requirements and recommendations -- 6.5.2 Migration example environment -- 6.5.3 Situation before migration -- 6.5.4 Summary of migration steps -- 6.5.5 Migration example steps -- 6.6 Oracle application migration scenario -- 6.7 DB2 application migration -- Appendix A. Manual Pages -- VERITAS File System, fsadm_vxfs -- Maintenance command: fscdsconv(1M) -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.