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Upgrading and migrating
Learn how to upgrade and migrate data for the product.
Planning your upgrade
To plan a HCL Compass upgrade, identify prerequisite requirements for hardware and software, choose an upgrade strategy, select HCL Compass features to install, understand how to upgrade HCL Compass server components, and prepare your environment.
Prepare the environment
Before upgrading HCL Compass, gather information about the server and clients currently deployed including server names, locations, and any information required to access and configure these resources. Identify your target enironment Also, make sure to back up existing client and server data.
Import all MultiSite packets

Import all MultiSite packets

About this task

HCL Compass provides an option to increase the number of record IDs from 16,000,000 records to 100,000,000 stateful and 2,000,000,000 stateless records. However, making this change modifies the format of the packets and oplogs that are used to replicate changes in a HCL Compass MultiSite environment.

If you are going to increase the record ID limit as part of your upgrade process, you must ship and import all synchronization packets before upgrading synchronization servers.

To ship and import synchronization packets:

Shut down all export operations on synchronization servers.
Ship all outstanding synchronization packets.
Import all outstanding synchronization packets.
Shut down all HCL Shipping Servers.