Migration estimates for Release 9.5

The time it takes to upgrade from Release 9.4 to Release 9.5 varies due to numerous factors. However, you can review this information for a migration estimate.

It is recommended that you use the information in this topic as a rough estimate and not as a guarantee.

The following hardware configuration was used to arrive at the time estimates:

DB Version: 10.5.5

DB Server OS: RHEL 7.2

Number of CPUs on the DB Server: eight 2.3 GHz processors

RAM on Database Server: 32 GB

Disk Filesystem: EXT4

Application Server (The server on which the migration was performed):

Number of CPUs: two 2.3 GHz processors

RAM: 8 GB

OS: RHEL 6.7

Row counts for key tables

Table 1 provides row counts for key tables in the sample database for Release 9.5.

Table 1. Row counts for key tables in the sample database
Data Current Data Size History Data Size
Number of Orders 2546778 4200133
Number of Order Lines 6252203 8856835
Number of Items 1718266 N/A
Number of Inventory Items 2176060 N/A
Number of Resource Pool Capacity Consumptions 175224 N/A

Migration estimate

Table 2 provides time estimates pertaining to the migration process based on the data in Table 1.
Note: Time is dependent on database tuning when retrieving count of records on the database.
Table 2. Migration estimates
Time Task
7 sec. copyextensions
3 min. 58 sec. initupgrade
4 sec. migration-validation
~20 sec. update-metadata-tables (For sharded environments only)
~7 sec. delete-stale-colony-pool (For sharded environments only)
10 sec. alter-history-tables
10 sec. install-history-indexes
32 sec. upgrade-history-tables
12 sec. alter-transaction-tables
9 sec. install-transaction-indexes
4 min. 12 sec. upgrade-transaction-tables
31 sec. migrate-doc-params
1 min. 58 sec. Add-in upgrade-transaction-tables
25 sec. Add-in upgrade-history-tables
41 sec. run-history-drop
55 sec. run-transaction-drop
~ 40 sec. migrate-custom-doc-types
~ 40 sec. migrate-char-to-varchar-h
~ 40 sec. migrate-char-to-varchar