International Business Machines Corporation

James R S Barros, Ii

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Harigovind Venkatraj Ramasamy

Norbert George Vogl

Robert Filepp

Nikolai A Joukov

Brian L Peterson

Eric James Barkie

Kamal Bhattacharya

Jing Luo

Colm V Malone

Kewei Sun

Kevin David Galloway

Karen Cheng

David L Westerman

Christopher C Young

The present invention describes a method and system for preparing a migration and consolidation of at least one source application to be migrated to or consolidated in at least one heterogeneous server device. A computing system selects at least one prospective target platform component based on an evaluation of at least one source platform component, a requirement of the at least one source application, and a compatibility and an affinity of the at least one prospective target platform component. The computing system collects first metadata of the at least one source platform component and the at least one prospective target platform component. The computing system collects second metadata associated with the migration and consolidation. The computing system groups the first metadata and the second metadata into a RFM (Request For Migration). The computing system prepares and configures a final target platform in accordance with the RFM.

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James R S Barros, Ii