Upgrading 6.0 to 7.0 on a different server

[honaka]

I searched through this forum and also the knowledge base and couldn't find what I was looking for so I'm posting a new topic.

Moderator, if there is a thread on this already, feel free to move this. Thanks.

I have a two-server configuration: Vault 6.0 is running on WS2003 SP2 and SQL server 2008 R2 on WS2008 R2. Since Vault 7.0 does not support WS2003, I'm provisioning a new WS2008R2 to run Vault server (been wanting to get rid of WS2003 so this is a good reason)

Now, since I'm not actually upgrading on the same server, do I treat it as an install and point to my SQL server (which is still 6.0)? Is the install smart enough to perform upgrade of the database or do I need to first install Vault 6 on the new server, then perform upgrade?

Thanks in advance for assistance.

P.S. My data center does not want to upgrade the same VM's operating system so that's not an option. They'd rather give me a new VM which only takes a few min rather than running an OS upgrade.

[lbauer]

Here are suggested steps to upgrade, given your configuration:

Make sure you have good backups of your databases:
sgvault, sgmaster, sgvaultindex and sgnotify.

Then install Vault 7 server, pointing the installer to the database location. The database schema will be upgraded to the Vault 7 version. If you have existing databases, the databases should always be in place in SQL Server before installing or upgrading Vault Server.

Users should upgrade their clients. Visual Studio projects will still be bound to the old server, so users will need to unbind and rebind to connect to the new server name/ip.

Let me know if you have any questions about this.