Windchill PDMLink migration on Microsoft Azure VM cloud

[mprasad]

We are using Windchill PDMLink Release 11.1 CPS M020-CPS08 and we want to migrate to new windchill  13.1.0 version.

The current windchill environemnt is clustered with 1 master and 2 slaves server (slave 1 and slave2) running on RHEL, one software loadbalancer (apache server )and one DB which is running on Oracle and fileserver for physhical storage.

Kindly guide in Finalization of upgrade path and procedure, or even this migration is possible and supported. i see below two options can be tried.

1. Migration - Shall we install new OOTB "Windchill 13.1" in Azure VM server, create simmilar clustered environment , use Azure SQL in place of oracle and then migrate the data using export /import tools. complete resetup, coniguration, customization and user and data import from previous environment.

2. Upgrade - Shall we take backup of application configurations, backup of DB and Vaults folder and then store it in the AZURE cloud in newly created VM, DB and vault folder and then run upgrade utility (WINDU/ WINRU the general procedure we use for application upgrade )

Please help on suggesting the right path which one should be choose .

regards 

Manish prasad 

[vnamboodheri]

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