What is the difference between Windchill Upgrade and Migration ?

[aachanta]

Hi All,

I have got a query.

Can anyone please answer the same ?

We can migrate a Windchill system from 9.1 to 10.2. However we can even upgrade the same.

So what makes the difference between Migration and Upgrade ? Can you please let me know the same.

Thanks and Regards,

Aditya Achanta

[TomU · Accepted solution]

Take a look at this article:  https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS225048

• An Update provides some defect (bug) fixes and sometimes minor enhancement.  (MOR to MOR, ex. 10.2 M010 to 10.2 M020)
• An Upgrade provides more substantial enhancements and new features.  (Release to Release, ex. 10.2 M010 to 11.0 F000)
• A Migration is usually used when data does not come from Windchill PDMLink.  (ex. Teamcenter to Windchill)

[aachanta]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the answer.

But what if there are two Windchill 9.1 systems where in the first Windchill system we wish to Migrate from 9.1 to 10.2 and in the second system if we want to Upgrade from 9.1 to 10.2 , considering the same amount of data and customizations in both the systems which is going to be more tough and complex and time consuming ?

Can you please let me know about it ?

Thanks and Regards,

Aditya

[BenLoosli]

Migrate can also apply if you move from one set of hardware to another. 9.1 ran on 32-bit Windows OS, 10.x uses a 64-bit OS on new servers.

They will be the same results and therefore the same amount of energy expended to get that result.

In your examples, they are both actually Upgrades. If you are changing hardware/OS versions, then it is a Migrate/Upgrade but you do it one step at a time. Move the data to the new servers (Migrate) then Upgrade to the new Windchjill version.

[TomU]

I've never personally done a migration, so I'm not totally sure, but I would think reusing the existing database (upgrade or update) has to be much less time consuming than trying to import data from an existing system into an entirely new, clean database (migration).

[BineshKumar1]

In my opinion, Upgrade one of the systems to 10.2 and use Windchill Bulk Migrator to migrate data from the other 9.1 system to the upgraded system. In this way you don't have to upgrade both the systems.

Read more about WBM from here - https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS196368 & https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS98174

Thank you

Binesh Kumar