Windchill Rehosting

[Vipul]

As i am new to windchill, I just want to know that how to move the Windchill from present drive to the Another drive on same machine, so what procedure must be followed.

Thanks in advance for the support.

[VladimirN]

 Hi,

Useful related article - "How to expand a vault onto a new physical drive in Windchill PDMLink": https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS57124

[Vipul]

hi

thanks for the reply.

but actually i want to move the whole data from windchill from W drive to the F drive (i.e rehosting move scenario). so please share any document you have. waiting for the solution.

Thanks in advance.

[BenLoosli · Accepted solution]

Download, read and understand the Windchill Rehost Guide.

Create your own documentation on the steps needed for the move.

Create rehost property files for your move operation.

Backup your complete system before the move.

Move the Windchill installation folder to your new drive.

Run the rehost utility.

If you have a test system, do this on that system first. Getting the properties set right can be a bit hit and miss.

[Vipul]

Thank you so much BenLoosli for your valuable guidance.

[MikeLockwood]

Can use this simple approach:

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/cs18409?language=en&posno=1&q=Changing%20the%20File%20Vault%20Location&source=search

https://support.ptc.com/help/wnc/r12.0.2.0/en/index.html#page/Windchill_Help_Center/filevaultChp_ChangeLocationFileExtVault.html

[TomU]

@MikeLockwood 

He's not moving the vaults, he's moving %WT_HOME%.

@Vipul,

I'm guessing you can just move the data to the other drive and update a couple of xml or properties files.  I'm doing a quick search on my test system to see how many places the file path is actually hard coded...

[TomU]

I was hoping it would be easy to do a 'find and replace' from the old path to the new path in Notepad++, but it turns out this path exists in a lot of files.  While many of these are probably just backups or log files, I still found over 4 million hits in almost 1200 different files.  You're probably better off doing what @BenLoosli suggested and using the rehost utility instead.