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VB365 v8 - Feedback & Thoughts - Upgrade vs Migration


Chris.Childerhose
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Hello VCSP Community,

We are planning our VB365 v8 upgrades and I wanted to get some feedback from other MSPs that might have started or gone down the road already to see how you handled this in regards to upgrade versus new deployment and migrate?

I have been doing some reading and research and it seems that the best route to go recommended is to deploy a new instance and migrate over to it versus conducting an upgrade.

So I wanted to solicit feedback here and have a discussion around this to get everyone’s feedback and thoughts.

Looking forward to a good discussion.

Cheers,
Chris

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  • Experienced User
  • 44 comments
  • October 1, 2024

I’m in the same spot, we are debating what makes more sense right now. I’d love to hear opinions. 


Chris.Childerhose
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  • October 1, 2024

I have done our documentation for a new deployment which was fairly straightforward once I understood the NATs portion.  ðŸ˜‹


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  • Experienced User
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  • October 1, 2024

Is it weird I’m excited about proxy pools? :)


Chris.Childerhose
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  • October 1, 2024

Nope cause we are too to help with processing and load.  They are great too being able to assign storage to the Pool now versus Proxy alone.  ðŸ˜Ž

 
 
 

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  • Veeam MVP
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  • October 2, 2024

Why migrate to a new environment?  What benefit does that provide?  If you bring in M365 backup storage to a new server don’t you lose all restore point details (data is there but not by restore point).  I’m not sure any option other than upgrade is correct.


Chris.Childerhose
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  • October 2, 2024
tim.hudson wrote:

Why migrate to a new environment?  What benefit does that provide?  If you bring in M365 backup storage to a new server don’t you lose all restore point details (data is there but not by restore point).  I’m not sure any option other than upgrade is correct.

Thanks Tim.  This came from a colleague so we will be discussing it before we proceed anyway.


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  • Experienced User
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  • October 2, 2024

What would you say the LOE is to spin proxy pools after upgrading? Easy?


Chris.Childerhose
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eblack wrote:

What would you say the LOE is to spin proxy pools after upgrading? Easy?

Yes very easy to get Proxy Pools going. ðŸ˜Ž


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Chris.Childerhose wrote:
eblack wrote:

What would you say the LOE is to spin proxy pools after upgrading? Easy?

Yes very easy to get Proxy Pools going. ðŸ˜Ž

 

Great to hear. 


dloseke
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  • October 2, 2024

I’m very small obviously with 9 tenants and 883 licenses, so I don’t have a need for Proxy Pools...at least not yet.  I do plan on migrating more over to VB365.  With that said, I just ran an upgrade, and nearly on a whim.  And from our local aquarium even.  It really wasn’t bad.  I didn’t see a reason to rebuild, for sure at our scale.  The main thing for me was that after the update there are post-upgrade steps to take such as updating the repositories and updating permissions on the registered application, so that did take a little bit, but since it was only 9 tenants, it really wasn’t that bad at all.  Then again, I would have needed to take those steps regardless of if I built new and migrated or performed an upgrade.  Like most things VB365, it all went pretty swiftly.