Yup. We are doing the same upgrade, and are doing it via the build and migrate plan, not an upgrade in place.
There are some bugs in the 8.1.02 installers, too, as I am finding. All the more reason to do it in a simpler environment. Rick Cook On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Rick Westbrock <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > Karthick- > > > > I know that others share my opinion that when you are jumping ahead > multiple big versions like this it is probably better to stand up a fresh > 8.1.02 environment and migrate relevant data from the old system to the > new. That is my plan when I get a chance to work on upgrading our 7.1 > environment to 8.1.02 myself (although I am working with Linux servers). I > believe there were quite a few posts to the list in the last six months or > so regarding exactly this topic so you might want to visit arslist.org > and search for the old posts there. > > > > In fact I did a quick search of my mailbox and found a thread named > “Upgrade to 8.1 AR/ITSM” from just last month regarding this. Contact me > off-list if you would like me to send over the messages. That thread had a > mention of the AMIGO program which you should also investigate. > https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=content&id=KA404408 > > > > -Rick > > > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Karthick S > *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2015 9:51 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Remedy Upgrade - Suggestions required. > > > > ** > > We are planning to do an upgrade in Remedy, please provide your > suggestions on this. > > > > Our current remedy environment is 7.1 Version and it’s database version is > SQL 2005. > > We are planning for an upgrade it to latest version 8.1.02 version. > > We have planned in 2 sections, first upgrading Remedy 7.1 to 7.6.04 and > then to 7.6.04 to 8.1.02. > > > > We have a new test server which is Windows Server 2012 R2 64 Bit and SQL > Server 2014 64 Bit Enterprise Edition. > > > > We have planned to take a backup copy of AR System DB from production > server which has DB version 2005 and copied into 2014 SQL DB version, from > their we can perform the upgrade. > > Is it possible, please let me know.? > > > > Or creating a test DB at 2005 SQL version, start the upgrade in Windows > Server 2012 R2 64 Bit and point it to test DB (2005 SQL version) and later > on moving the DB instance from 2005 SQL DB to 2014 SQL DB. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Regards,* > > *Karthick Sundararajan* > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
