PeopleSoft 9.2 Upgrade: Technical & Project Planning

There are really 3 steps of planning that we need to highlight. First, you
need to perform Technical planning. This will include planning for your technical requirements and performing a Technical Fit Gap analysis. Second, you need to plan your project team requirements, identifying key personnel and resources. Finally, you will create your detailed project plan. We have even included a sample project plan for you to use.

In order to efficiently perform your upgrade as smoothly as possible, you need to perform a reviewand analysis of your current hardware and software components that make up your current PeopleSoft application.

You should document this information in a spreadsheet or other format and then compare this information with new release Hardware and Software requirements. This is the information you downloaded in an earlier step. Once you perform this comparison you will be able to see the Gaps in your technical environment and discover what needs to be aqcuired to meet the new requirements.

Now, here is some important information for capacity planning. When you perform an upgrade you will need a vast amount of file and database disk space for holding multiple copies of your database.
Therefore, be sure to plan for at least three times the size of your current production database with room for several backups of these databases.

Furthermore you will require about twice the amount of File Server space that you utilize in production today. And, it is most important that your upgrade server have the appropriate processing power, memory, and that it is properly configured for a large amount of batch processing.

You can go onto Oracle support to download the most recent hardware and software requirements guides to assist you with planning the above.