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Building a plan of attack

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Building a plan of attack

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- [Instructor] One of the lessons learned through migrating various production workloads is that every migration, no matter how simple or complex it may be, really needs a migration plan. So I want to take the opportunity to talk about some of the key considerations that should go into the migration planning process. One of the first things that you need to do during the very early planning phases of the migration is to create a comprehensive application inventory. There are several things that this inventory needs to do. First and foremost, it needs to identify all of the applications that are being used throughout the organization. And if possible, the inventory should also document the owners of those applications. Additionally, the inventory should document application versions, system requirements for the applications. And one thing that's commonly overlooked, but is extremely important, is that your inventory should seek to document application dependencies, because very often…

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