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Posted on by Brian P Connell 859

I am interested in hearing from others about upgrade times from GP9 to 2010, or Gp10 to 2010. I realize that there are a number of factors, but this is just for a general idea for planning.

Currently I have 3 seperate upgrades from GP 9 to GP2010 runnng. all on win 2008 and sql 2008. One takes about 35 minutes per company (108 databases), Another takes about 60 minutes per (50 databases), and the other is about 80 minutes per (50 databases).

Most databases are an average of 600 MB. Some are larger at 4 Gb, 10GB, and the ones over 20GB take a little longer, these times I posted are a basic average for the databases that are bewtween 500 MB and 1 GB. 

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  • Mariano Gomez Profile Picture
    Mariano Gomez 26,225 on at
    Re: GP 2010 upgrade times

    There is no way anyone can tell you whether those time are acceptable or not. I have done upgrades of 1 database alone that take more than 6 hours on fast servers, but the database size is nearing half of terabyte, with quad processors. In contrast, I have upgraded 5 databases totaling no more than 600 GB in less than 2 hours on quad 64-bit servers. As you can see, it's anyone's best guess.

    Take a look at my article From the Newsgroups: Upgrading 150+ company databases as it provides some upgrade strategies for large environments.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    Re: GP 2010 upgrade times

    You are right, there is no way really of telling whether this time is reasonable for your enviornment, there are so many factors. However, I wouldn't say that the times are excessive. Its a pain if you have 108 companies to do and its taking 30 minutes per....but 30 minutes for a reasonably sized compay isn't too bad.

    You could always run the upgrades on different machines?  Set up a test enviornment and split you companies across the live and test - this will halve the time as they will be running concurrently...but then you have to re-attache the databases in the live. Might be an idea for your test upgrade. When the test runs fine, you can kick things off in the live and know its not going to stop halfway through...and you can go home at night!!!. If you hve a spare clean machine, you could try upgrading on it and see if the performance improoves.

     

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