Migration strategies for AIX

IBM Power Virtual Server in IBM data center

IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location

Learn about the various AIX migration strategies for IBM® Power® Virtual Server.

Migrating an AIX-based Oracle database

To migrate an AIX-based Oracle database from IBM Power to Power Virtual Server, see Oracle technical migration procedure.

Migrating Db2 on AIX to Power Virtual Server

See the use case on Migrating Db2 on AIX to Power Virtual Server for complete information.

Migrating client-managed environment to Power Virtual Server

See the Move data from client-managed environment to Power Virtual Server topic for complete information.

Migrating by using NIM on Power Virtual Server

You can configure your Network Installation Management (NIM) server on a Power Virtual Server and migrate an AIX virtual server instance from AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 or 7.3, and other operations.

See Migrating by using NIM on Power Virtual Server for more information.

Migration by using MKSYSB

You can migrate your data by using the mksysb command:

Back up the client-managed environment OS image with the alt_disk_mksysb command and transfer it to Cloud Object Storage.
Create a Power Virtual Server and import the image.
Restore the client-managed environment OS image.

For more information, see Restoring an AIX mksysb image onto a Power Virtual Server instance.

Alternative AIX migration strategies

Some alternative AIX migration strategies include:

rsync for nondatabase files
Log shipping for databases