1) Planning your migration project for deploying a virtualized & consolidated environment

- Robust project assessment and analysis

- Initial assessment study to evaluate application readiness and tools validation

- Evaluation of the portability of your custom-made and ISV applications

- Migration project success criteria

- A pilot proof of concept (PPOC) to demonstrate the technology and success criteria

- Migration roadmap and base implementation plan & checklists

- Consolidation study using a specialized tool (IBM RACE tool, etc)

- z/Linux-z/VM skill development and negotiated SLA Project

2) Migration project implementation

- Implementing migration according to plan

- Producing a z/Linux-on-System z environment mature enough for testing and validation

- Critical testing of the new environment

- Resolving all issues before committing and deploying to production