I like vmware better and it has a virtual to physical migration tool.
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On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Jon <jonawr_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out the best way to upgrade versions of apache,
> subversion, and other related tools with minimal downtime.
> Currently I'm running RHEL4 and svn 1.4, and want to upgrade to
> apache 2.2 and svn 1.5.
>
> One idea was to start running subversion in a virtual machine
> through vmware or virtualbox. Then I could update and test new
> versions of the software without any real downtime. Any thoughts on
> performance or other issues? Which version of vmware are people
> using?
>
> If the virtual machine concept has issues, then I could always
> rehost the subversion server on another temporary server until the
> real svn server is upgraded and the dumpfiles are reloaded with the
> new version. This would allow developers to continually commit, and
> I could just load the incremental dumpfiles onto the updated svn
> server once ready. One of my repositories alone takes an hour to
> load from a dumpfile, so I really want to find a solution that
> allows me to have everything configured and just switch over to the
> new configuration with only a few minutes of downtime.
>
> Any other ideas for upgrading and failover?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
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Received on 2008-11-20 23:47:04 CET