Re: WSM 10.1 - Update Production Server to 11.0

[Tim D]

From my experiences watching customer upgrades. I like the ability to do it on new hardware and have longer test window. If you have no or limited customizations given its 10.1.2 you are ok to do in place upgrade on your version without intermediate upgrades. If you want to validate your steps you could Amazon AWS Medium/Large Server for <1 month setup with Oracle and CMS on temporary keys to practice the upgrade procedure. Make sure you have proper OS and DB backups if you are doing this in place.

Best,

Tim

On Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:54:05 PM UTC-5, Richard Ota wrote:

Hello,

We have a single cms box with 10.1 spk2 w/Oracle. There's only 3 projects (1 live) with maybe 1000 pages each.
We are hoping to update to 11 but finding it hard to get the hardware to do it in a true test/development server first.

Any words of advice or preferences to upgrading to 11 and/or upgrading without a test/development server?

Thanks.

--Rich

[Richard Ota]

Tim,

Thanks for the reply.

When you say "new hardware" are you referring to a development/test machine or replacement hardware?
The replacement hardware is not a possibility and as it turns out, get a full testing environment setup is a bit of challenge.
Do many of your customers just take the hit and upgrade their production server directly? I guess with the proper application and database backups available, anything is possible.

Thanks again,

--Rich

[Richard Ota]

[Hilmar Bunjes]

Rich,

 

Tim,

Thanks for the reply.

When you say "new hardware" are you referring to a development/test machine or replacement hardware?
The replacement hardware is not a possibility and as it turns out, get a full testing environment setup is a bit of challenge.
Do many of your customers just take the hit and upgrade their production server directly? I guess with the proper application and database backups available, anything is possible.

Thanks again,

--Rich

I would go with Tim and switch to new machines if you are using VMs. This way you will have minimum downtime if anything does not work as expected. As far as we have experienced the Management Server is working great in version 11 but we still have some issues with users who are not able to select specific projects and so on.

 

If you do not use VMs and don't want to move on new hardware then you should take some time as planned downtime, make backups and upgrade the production machines. It is possible and should work as expected. However, if you have any issues with version 11 it might be difficult to test on the new installation if your editors require you to go back to the backup to be able to edit the website.

 

Best,

Hilmar

 

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[Richard Ota]

Thank you, Hilmar.

I will keep you posted.