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Pilot Testing
It is recommended that you perform a Technical Pilot in advance of a production migration. The Technical Pilot serves two primary purposes:
- (a) ensures your Transend Migration Console software configuration yields an output that meets data fidelity expectations, and
- (b) allows you to collect throughput performance benchmarking data to guide production scaling decisions.
Data Fidelity Validation
Pilot migration(s) of select accounts will allow pilot users to evaluate migration results and flush out any output fidelity issues, eventually leading to the migration configuration that yields expected results. When fidelity issues are identified, you have the unique ability to either make software configuration adjustments or, if necessary, request that Transend’s development team creates a custom patch to resolve the issue.
By performing a thorough review to ensure you’re using an optimized software configuration, it significantly reduces the likelihood of surprises during production.
Throughput Optimization
The Technical Pilot also provides an opportunity to evaluate throughput results that can be used to appropriately scale the production migration farm. Transend Migration Console can leverage multiple workstations running concurrent threads to work in parallel, yielding significant scalability and faster data processing. However, it is important to appropriately size the migration farm to ensure processing efficiency and avoid diminishing returns from overloading compute resources. By reviewing throughput rates achieved during the pilot, you can move to production with a migration farm that is properly scaled, ensuring cutover deadlines are met.
Pilot Review Guidelines
The following Pilot Review Guidelines include recommended issues to review after your data has been migrated in the pilot. It is not a comprehensive list, but a suggested starting point.
Customers self-migrating (Do It Yourself)
You are testing Transend Migration Console to perform the mailbox migration yourself.
Migration Services customers (We Do It For You)
Transend is performing the migration for you as an Enterprise Professional Services engagement.