A New Production Enterprise Server

[rfd_jde]

Dear List,

We are getting ready to change out our production Enterprise Server. What would be a better/prefer way to proceed - keep our old Enterprise Server name or give it a new name? What are the pros and cons? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help,

Tet Hadavas
ERP 8, SP22, Update 1, Windows 2000, SQL 2000.

 

[gerd_renz3]

Tet,
if your old and new servers are compatible (hardware, OS level) you could just do a backup and restore of the JDE directory and database, naming the new machine the same as the old one. That´s easy.
However, it´s very easy as well to ADD a new server to an existing system. (In that case it would have a different name, off course.) You could then test the new machine in parallel, slowly move all datasources to it and eventually switch off the old machine when it´s not used any more. Very smooth.
Personally I would go for the second option.

Good luck, Gerd