Determine Your Upgrade Methodology

Before you begin the upgrade process, you will need to decide on an upgrade methodology to follow. Choose the best option based on the size, complexity, and acceptable downtime for your particular environment.

• In-Place Upgrade: The upgrade is made directly to the current in-place environment hardware. Your MicroStrategy environment will be unavailable to end users throughout the upgrade process. This option works best for smaller deployments and those where downtime is acceptable.

  You do not need to uninstall your current version of MicroStrategy before upgrading. MicroStrategy recommends performing an over-install when doing an in-place upgrade.

• Parallel Upgrade: The upgrade is first executed on a test environment. The testing environment is configured to mirror the current production environment. Once the upgrade process, data validation, and performance tests are completed and evaluated the testing environment can be configured for use as the new production environment.