Upgrade Sybase To Version 15.0

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Summary:

Upgrade the Sybase Servers to Version 15.0.3 from soon to be end-of-life Support from Sybase for 12.5.x versions. Also need to transition the Sybase server from the SUN Hardware and Solaris OS.

Start Date:

May 19, 2009

Go Live:

October 13, 2009

End Date:

December 31, 2009

Current Milestone:

10/13/2009 - Convert develop2 server to Sybase Version 15

Stage:

On track

Lead Customer Comments:

It appears that we have Sybase licensing issues behind us.

People

Sponsor/Champion:

Adrian Sannier, Vice President and University Technology Officer

Lead Customer:

John Rome

Project Manager:

John Rome (temporarily)

Contact for more information:

Jack.Davis@ASU.edu

Associate VP University Technology:

John Rome

University Technology Director:

John Rome

More Info

Source:

Internal

Department:

UTO

Priority:

Lower

Scope:

The transitioning from SUN Hardware and OS will enable the Cost Savings of $115,000 from the annual SUN Maintenance fee. The SUN equipment is several years old and may be soon reaching it's end-of-life for maintenance and support. The project will require the purchase of new Dell equipment and outside consulting services. Those totals should be available shortly after the initial kickoff meeting. Those cost are anticipated to be well below the 115K annual maintenance, which will will save in perpetuity after we complete this project.

The project will also look at server consolidation as well retiring or migrating some of the existing databases.

All Milestones and Schedule:

Build of Sybase ASE 15 environment - 6/17/2009 (COMPLETED)
Proof of Concept Migration from version 12.5 to version 15 - 6/21/20009 (COMPLETED)
Prototype New Enterprise1 Server - 6/24/2009 (COMPLETED)
Develop2 Test Migration (second iteration) - 7/15/2009
Tested Disaster Recover and live migration from one Zen Host to another - 7/21/2009 (COMPLETED - Thanks Jim Salverson)
Refinement of migration process for Develop2 and enterprise1 (build server start to finish for 2nd time) - 8/17/2009
Maintenance monitoring scripts converted and tested - 9/4/2009
Complete Licensing Conversion with Sybase for Platform Change - 9/4/2009 (COMPLETED 10/5/2009)
Convert PHP and Perl scripts used for backups, usage, etc.

Go-Live Migration Dates
develop2 - 11/09/2009
enterprise1 - 11/23/2009
Other Sybase servers - TBD

Risk & Threats:

-Timing with Semester Startup
-Licensing with Sybase has taken longer than anticipated.
-Licensing still taking longer than anticipated - 09/10/2009
-Licensing negotations still ongoing with Sybase hope to solve this week 10/1/09

Attachment	Size
ASU Sybase Upgrade SOW 05312009.pdf	38.71 KB
save to desktop before opening - Upgrade Sybase Version 15.0.mpp	471.5 KB