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MiGro
MiGro

Reputation: 511

Testing TFS upgrade by cloning the VM?

Our TFS 2017 is hosted on a virtual machine (Windows Server 2012). We are planning to upgrade the TFS to 2018. I am planning to create a clone from the VM and running the clone as a second instance with own IP, server name, etc.

I am sure that this will create a nice clone, but I am not sure if this solution is a good way to create a clone of the TFS for upgrade testing. I believe that app- and data-tier still point to the source installation.

Has anyone tried that already and can give me a hand?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 117

Answers (1)

ChamindaC
ChamindaC

Reputation: 1492

You should not clone the VM. Instead clone the TFS instance. There is a procedure to follow when you clone an instance of TFS 2017.

  1. You should make backups of TFS DBs and restore them in a different machine or VM
  2. You should restore and prepare the DBs by changing server IDs and mapping DBs (This step is utmost important to prevent corrupting your current production TFS instance). With TFS 2018 the clone creation is made easy as the configuration wizard will take care of change server IDs and mapping DB Steps.
  3. Configure the cloned instance of TFS.

Do not try to make a copy of the VM and get it up and running which will corrupt both instances of TFS.

Upvotes: 1

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