Tutorial: Migrating a WebSphere Commerce store
This tutorial demonstrates how to migrate an Aurora-based store from WebSphere Commerce Version 7 or Version 8, to HCL Commerce Version 9.1.
Learning objectives
After completing this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following concepts and tasks:- The difference in architectures between a remote and local store.
- The tasks required for migrating WebSphere Commerce stores.
- The tasks required for the building and deployment of custom Docker containers, for use in live production HCL Commerce environments.
Time required
Expect this tutorial to take 3 hours or more to complete. The tutorial takes longer if you explore all of the concepts and tasks that are related to this tutorial.Skill level
AdvancedAudience
This tutorial is intended for developers who are responsible for migrating, customizing, testing, building and deploying HCL Commerce sites.Prerequisites
Before you begin:- Read the following sections in the HCL Commerce documentation to gain the prerequisite
knowledge required to migrate a legacy WebSphere Commerce store:
- Migrating a legacy WebSphere Commerce store, to learn the differences in available store architectures.
- Deploying custom changes, to learn the basics about building your custom HCL Commerce Docker images.
- Setting up an HCL Commerce production environment and HCL Commerce production environment overview, to learn about the HCL Commerce Version 9.1 production environment, and the various methods that can be used to stand up a production site from your custom Docker images.
- Ensure that you have full backups of your WebSphere Commerce site. This will ensure that
any errors that are made during the migration can be fully reversed.
Specific backup instructions are also included in the lessons and tasks that are referenced throughout this tutorial.