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Add 'Switch to OpenTelemetry' migration guide - #8194

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Summary

Adds solutions/observability/get-started/opentelemetry/switch-to-otel.md, a new how-to guide for existing Elastic users migrating from classic APM agents or Beats-based collection to Elastic OpenTelemetry. Companion to #7875 (start-with-otel, for new users).

This PR has to be merged after #7875 (the guide links to a page introduced by #7875)

Closes #7321.

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Add a unified "Switch to OpenTelemetry" migration how-to guide (SDK + Collector/Agent)

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