EVALUATION CHECKLIST

Bring the application, architecture, and decision criteria.

Use this checklist to define a representative Halo evaluation before testing begins.

Decision and source estate

  • Application, business purpose, and criticality
  • Source product, edition, version, and topology
  • Business owner, technical owner, and decision date
  • Migration, consolidation, or architecture question
  • Non-negotiable and stop-early requirements

Compatibility surface

  • Required Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL mode
  • Types, functions, operators, and query behavior
  • Schemas, tables, indexes, partitions, views, and sequences
  • Procedures, functions, packages, triggers, and temporary objects
  • Transactions, isolation, locking, and error behavior
  • DBLINK, foreign-data, and extension dependencies

Application and integration

  • Drivers, connection pools, frameworks, and ORM
  • Jobs, reporting, administration, and monitoring tools
  • Authentication, authorization, and cryptographic requirements
  • Upstream, downstream, and external-service dependencies

Data and workload

  • Data volume, distribution, growth, and retention
  • Representative transactions and query mix
  • Concurrency, batch windows, and peak conditions
  • Latency, throughput, stability, and resource criteria
  • Sensitive-data and secure-transfer constraints

Target architecture and continuity

  • Processor, operating system, storage, network, and topology
  • Replication mode and synchronization level
  • Failover, switchover, fencing, and application reconnect
  • Backup type, validation, retention, restore, and PITR
  • DLB, TWR, HSM, or HDS requirements when applicable

Operations and observability

  • Installation and configuration ownership
  • Monitoring, HWR, and diagnostic evidence
  • Resource controls and tuning responsibilities
  • Maintenance, upgrade, and recovery procedures
  • Required extensions and administration tools

Acceptance and decision record

  • Requirement owner and test owner
  • Expected result and measurement method
  • Evidence to retain
  • Passed, remediation, unsupported, or untested status
  • Retest conditions
  • Proceed, remediate, or stop recommendation

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