How long is my TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade going to take – Part 2

calendarJun 27, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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Back in January I did a post How long is my TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade going to take? I have now done some more work with one of the clients and have more data. Specially the initial trial was 2010 > 2013 RTM on a single tier test VM; we have now done a test upgrade from 2010 > 2013.2 on the same VM and also one to a production quality dual tier system.

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The key lessons are

  • There a 150 more steps to go from 2013 RTM to 2013.2, it takes a good deal longer.
  • The dual tier production hardware is nearly twice as fast to do the upgrade, though the initial steps (step 31, moving the source code) is not that much faster. It is the steps after this that are faster. We put it down to far better SQL throughput.