Upgrading Windows Server Platform

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March 5, 2018 at 3:37 pm #55636
Jay Clements
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Current Version: Cloverleaf 6.1.0

Current OS: Windows Server 2008 R2

Layout: Test Server, Production Server

Destination Version: Cloverleaf 6.2.0

Destination OS: Windows Server 2012

Layout: Test Server, Production Server

Backups: Nightly

Environment: VM

We are in the planning stages of both a server OS upgrade and a Cloverleaf software upgrade.

We figured that if we are going to have the downtime, might as well kill to birds with one stone.

I have a few questions that maybe those with more experience would be able to help with:
1. Is this a bad idea / exceptionally difficult?
2. Is there documentation available? The release notes and installation guides don’t say anything about OS upgrades.

3. Any advice or pitfalls?

Thanks,

Rob Clements

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- March 6, 2018 at 3:59 pm #85982
  bill bearden
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  Rob,
  
  We are on Cloverleaf 6.2.0.1. We upgraded back in May 2017. At that time, we also moved from real hardware to virtual machines. I think it was at the same time (I don’t have that in the notes I quickly checked) that we upgraded to Windows Server 2012 R2.
  
  So, I think we moved to 6.2 and Server 2012 and virtual hardware at the same time. It was more “new install” than “upgrade”. That is, we didn’t do an in place upgrade of Windows Server 2008 to 2012. The server guys created the servers and we installed the new Cloverleaf on them.
  
  Look at the discussion on Performance Issues on 6.2. Our volume is a million messages per month, not a million messages a day. But we have had occasional performance issues in our biggest production site. We don’t know for certain that it is related to the performance issues in the discussion. But it seems likely. You might want to hold off until all 3 fixes are released.
  
  https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/viewtopic.php?t=8484
  
  While it was good to get all the changes (OS, Cloverleaf, hardware) out of the way at once, it leads to uncertainty when there are issues.
  
  Bill
- March 6, 2018 at 4:24 pm #85983
  Jay Clements
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  Thanks Bill
  
  I appreciate the pointer to that thread about version issues.
  
  As to migrations, is there a set of policies on how to actually do the migration of data from server to server? I took the Infor site admin course which only covered using Box for site migration. Is that the preferred method?
  
  Our roll out is all on VM so we are going to spin up two identical Server 2012 environments, one test and one prod, and start with migration from-test-to-test in order to dogfood the upgrades.
  
  Thanks again for your response
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