Sorry if this question is out of place but I'm new to the Solidworks side of life. Until now others have taken care of our software installs on the solidworks server. We are presently running Solidworks PDM vault and Network Licensing (2015) on a 2008 R2 server. Due to age we have a new 2012 R2 server we need to migrate to... Moving the data is fairly straight forward and I've done a number of data copies/backups and restores to make sure things come across fine. What I'm looking for is someone who has run down this road before and can tell me any thing they learned along the way. I would rather be prepared for the unexpected or issues versus run into it at the last minute. Any tips or tricks to re-install the PDM and Networking License servers?
Thanks,
John
Hi John, if you look in the EPDM installation guide, there is a section titled "Moving Server components" to another system
Essentially the process:
1. Backup EPDM (vault archives, databases, archive server settings) old server
2. Copy to new server
3. Restore databases and archives on new server (read the installation guide on how to do this)
4. Point clients to new server (both for EPDM and for SolidWorks)
I hope that helps, you should also ask your VAR as typically they have upgrade guides etc, I used to work for a VAR and we had these sorts of guides to give to customers.