The Magento migration tool is about the Magento 1.x to Magento 2 migration that involves data, extensions, themes and customization.
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Data:This data migration tool automates the transfer of data from Magento 1.x to Magento 2 and helps you efficiently port the important customer, product and order data. It also helps you port the promotions and store configurations to Magento 2.
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Extensions:The Magento development community team is working actively to bring the widely used extensions on Magento Connect till Magento 2 becomes available to all the people.
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Themes and Customization:With the help of Magento 2’s new approaches and technologies, developers can change the themes and customizations and provide opportunity to merchants to create an amazing and innovative shopping experience.
This Magento migration tool is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2015. The tools support the community edition 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 as well as enterprise edition 1.11, 1.12, 1.13 and 1.14.
Magento 1.x to Magento 2 upgrade is expected to be 20 percent more than a typical Magento 1.x to Magento 1.x upgrade. It all depends upon the website and the level of customization. When we talk about architecture, out of so many options available, the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) was chosen, as the migration speed is higher and that too with the least downtime.
Speed up and simplify your migration
You can speed up the process by drifting the data from a replicated Magento 1.x database instance. Make sure you remove the redundant as well as outdate data from Magento 1.x database. Some of the examples of outdated and redundant data are logs, recently viewed products, visitors, recently compared products, order quotes, event specific categories and promotional rules, to name a few. During the test runs as well as when you the actual migration begins, you must stop all the administrative activities like configuration changes as well as customers, inventory and order maintenance. When it comes to the Magento Enterprise Edition, you must archive all the orders that are not archived.
Migration Plan
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The first step is to review your current website. Check which extensions are present, which of them you want in your new site and which of them exists in Magento 2 version.
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The next step involves the capacity planning wherein you will have to decide about the design hardware and new topology to take your website to the next level.
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The step 3 consists of building and testing Magento 2 where in you have to set up the Magento 2 system and reduce the network latency.
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Now, you can start the migration in this step.
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After the successful migration, you should be capturing the data updates from Magento 1,x to Magento 2
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Now that your Magento 2 website is up to date, you are all set and ready to go live.
Manual Migration
Well, there are a few things which need to be migrated manually like extensions and custom code, media on the file system, store front design, layouts and web services credentials.
You must remember that there are a few things which you should not migrate at all. Some of them include indexed data, Google shopping and the data that is not supported in Magento 2.0.
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