Upgrade path for 2015.2.2

[warron.french]

Does anyone know how I can upgrade from PE 2015.2.2?

Do I need to give up, and build a separate new VM and install the latest PE version?

Thank you.

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Warron French

[Rob Nelson]

Warren,

It sounds like you have a single all in one master, which makes it pretty simple. If not, then the answers below may oversimplify the process.

To do this in place, I think you want to go to 2015.3.3 then the latest version. There was essentially a break in the upgrader around that point so you can't go straight to the latest, and I think 2015.3.3 had the least caveats around it as an intermediate step. I used it as my step between 3.8 and 2016.4.1, the latest at the time of my upgrade, so I think you should be fine. Certainly you should check the release notes for any edge cases first, of course.

There's nothing wrong with making a new VM, though. If you're using the classifier, then you should read up on exporting and importing that information. I don't use it so I don't have any experience to share, sorry. Same thing for Console configs like authentication and such.

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[warron.french]

Hey Rob!  Thanks for the reply.  Yes, I am running a monolithic installation.

So, you believe I can just install 2015.3.3 over the existing, current, installation?  Then again install-in-place with the latest version of PE?

Is there anything you can think of in the installation instructions I should be looking out for in particular?  Also, I don't know if I am using the classifier, I can't remember how to do determine this fact - any advice?

Thank you.

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Warron French

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Rob Nelson <rnel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Warren,

It sounds like you have a single all in one master, which makes it pretty simple. If not, then the answers below may oversimplify the process.

To do this in place, I think you want to go to 2015.3.3 then the latest version. There was essentially a break in the upgrader around that point so you can't go straight to the latest, and I think 2015.3.3 had the least caveats around it as an intermediate step. I used it as my step between 3.8 and 2016.4.1, the latest at the time of my upgrade, so I think you should be fine. Certainly you should check the release notes for any edge cases first, of course.

There's nothing wrong with making a new VM, though. If you're using the classifier, then you should read up on exporting and importing that information. I don't use it so I don't have any experience to share, sorry. Same thing for Console configs like authentication and such.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:13 PM warron.french <warron...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know how I can upgrade from PE 2015.2.2?

Do I need to give up, and build a separate new VM and install the latest PE version?

Thank you.

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Warron French

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My advice would be to open a support ticket and ask for assistance on verifying the Classifier settings will transfer in an upgrade, as well as how to back them up. I did experience some issues with it, and in hindsight it would be have been quicker to export the important settings, install a new server, and import those settings; trying to recover what went wrong did work but took forever (even though we don't specifically use it, the default settings ARE important to have working). It's possible support got a handle on our issue and it's not as big a deal now, though. Either way, support can provide more specific guidance.

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