Our VM Admin preped the new instance in November. I spent 3 weeks preping the software load of Domino, DB2 client and db connections, Java, and a few independent add-ins. A few fellow sysadmins loaded up MQ Series client, NetIQ, and CommVault. On Friday, the VM admin starting the data migration from the old HP physical server to the new virtual machine. The data transfer took 28 hours, with and average throughput of 30 GB/hour. On Sunday morning, shortly after 12:30 AM, I stood up the Domino Services and did preliminary testing. Later the Analyst, Programmers, and I did additional testing and handed it over to the client system owners (owners of the various databases and programs running on this server). 1 Class A app, 80+ Class B apps, and numerous other app and mail-in DBs. Testing completed without flaw.
Thanks to everyone who helped out! :)
