Rehost & Update PDMLink

[mhug]

Hi everyone,

We plan to update PDMLink9.0-M030 on Windows2003-32Bit to PDMLink9.1-M050 on new Server with Windows2008-64Bit.
What is the best procedure to do this ?
Update first on Windows2003 and then Rehost on Windows2008
or
Rehost first to Windows2008 and then do the Update ?

Any experience ?
Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Matthias

[ZacharyAlexande]

Matthias,

Personally, I would update first since you are more likely to get issues
with the update than the rehost and it would be easier to diagnose these
issues without having the rehost be a factor. One thing to consider though
is if you are currently on Aphelion you will want to migrate over to
Windchill DS and this can either be performed before the rehost or during.

Zack

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Hug Matthias (GIAMHU) - 272 <
Matthias.Hug@gia.ch> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We plan to update PDMLink9.0-M030 on Windows2003-32Bit to PDMLink9.1-M050
> on new Server with Windows2008-64Bit.
> What is the best procedure to do this ?
> Update first on Windows2003 and then Rehost on Windows2008
> or
> Rehost first to Windows2008 and then do the Update ?
>
> Any experience ?
> Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthias
>
>
>

[Cosmo]

Matthias,
You should alway perform any upgrade/modification on a test system first. It sounds like you have the option of doing this using your Windows 2008 machine (which would eventually become your production machine). I would perform a few test runs first before doing the actual switch.Step 1-rehost to the 2008 machine (test to make sure everything works and the rehost went fine)Step 2-update the 2008 machine (test to make sure everything works fine)
Document each step along the way (creating a script to follow for doing it the final time over to the new machine). After you've created the script the first time, scrap the 2008 machine and do it all over again following your script.
If you do an Update first on your production machine and something goes wrong, then your production machine is down and out until you can restore it. Doing it this way gives you an extra backup plan. If you make the switch to the 2008 machine and find all sorts of problems on that first day, you can easily just switch back over the the 2003 server and try again later on the 2008.


Mike -



Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:42:31 -0500
Subject: [solutions] - RE: Rehost & Update PDMLink