System Migration
Physical Server Migration
Move physical-server workloads to new hardware, virtualisation, private cloud, or public cloud through a controlled process.
Physical servers often carry years of hardware, operating-system, network, and application dependencies. We map those dependencies before selecting a migration method.
When this service is needed
- Hardware is approaching end of support or presents failure risk.
- A data centre is moving or consolidating.
- Workloads are moving to virtualisation or cloud.
- Downtime and application compatibility must be controlled.
Scope
- Hardware, OS, disk, network, service, and dependency inventory.
- Compatibility checks for physical, virtual, or cloud targets.
- Imaging, replication, conversion, or rebuild based on condition.
- IP, DNS, firewall, certificate, and storage mapping.
- Rehearsal, cutover, rollback, and application validation.
- Secure decommissioning and legacy-device data handling.
Migration stages
- Discovery: inventory assets, dependencies, owners, and criticality.
- Design: define the target, migration method, acceptance criteria, and rollback.
- Rehearsal: test tools, timings, data, and procedures within a controlled scope.
- Cutover: execute the move through checklists and escalation paths.
- Validation: prove function, integrity, security, and performance.
- Stabilisation: monitor outcomes, remediate findings, and retire legacy systems.
Deliverables
- Inventory and dependency map.
- Migration runbook, cutover plan, and rollback plan.
- Test and reconciliation evidence.
- Target-environment documentation and decommission plan.
Intended outcomes
Workloads move without losing critical dependencies, supported by validation evidence and a secure legacy-hardware retirement plan.