02 - Configuring a Migration Workstation (For One Concurrent Migration)

02 - Configuring a Migration Workstation (For One Concurrent Migration)

Recommended Location

A migration workstation configured this way can be located in any of the following locations:
  1. in your office
  2. in your data center
  3. on the same network as the customer's server (if they are moving from an on-premise application)

Hardware Specifications

Standard Specs

(For Firms with less than 100 users.)

  • Windows 11 Pro. A fresh installation that is has never been attached to a domain.
  • Wired internet connection.  This means there is some form of wire connection that is unbroken from your PC to the internet.  This would exclude using satellite, or a cellular based modem that you connect your PC to using a wire as there is a portion of the connection path that is not wired.
  • 100Mbit+ Internet Connection.  This means the migration workstation must have an internet connection with sufficient speeds for facilitating a data backup.
  • i7-12700K Processor* or above
  • 32 GB of RAM* or more
  • A PCIE3+ M.2 SSD that *:
    • Is 1,000GB plus twice the size of any documents that will be backed up.
    • Supports read/write speeds of at least 3500mb/sec.

* No Old Parts:  No PC should be used that has a CPU, RAM, SSD Hard Drive(s) with a model number that was first manufactured more than three years ago.

Review this article for instructions on how to determine the recency of a device.

Enterprise Specs

(For firms with more than 100 users)

  • Windows 11 Pro. A fresh installation that is has never been attached to a domain.
  • Wired internet connection.  This means there is some form of wire connection that is unbroken from your PC to the internet.  This would exclude using satellite, or a cellular based modem that you connect your PC to using a wire as there is a portion of the connection path that is not wired.
  • 100Mbit+ Internet Connection.  This means the migration workstation must have an internet connection with sufficient speeds for facilitating a data backup.
  • i7-12700K Processor* or above
  • 128 GB of RAM* or more
  • At Least three PCIE4+ M.2 SSDs that *:
    • Are 4,000GB in Size
    • Supports read/write speeds of at least 7000mb/sec.

* No Old Parts:  No PC should be used that has a CPU, RAM, SSD Hard Drive(s) with a model number that was first manufactured more than three years ago.

Review this article for instructions on how to determine the recency of a device.

Required Software Configuration

Once the above system is available, please install the following software on exactly as specified.

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