About this task
In this example, the sharded deployment,
Production_V1, is deployed on Sterling Selling and
Fulfillment Foundation Release
9.3, and includes the colonies CLY1, CLY2, and CLY3. The following
example describes the process of upgrading CLY1 to Release 9.4:
To upgrade CLY1 to Release 9.4, perform the following
tasks:
Procedure
- Create an Upgrade Environment: Upgrade_V1.
- Move CLY1 to the Upgrade Environment.
- Upgrade Upgrade_V1 to Release 9.4.
- Return CLY1 to the Production Environment.
Results
After the colony-by-colony upgrade process
is completed, a new sharded production environment, Production_V2,
is established. Production_V2 is your new version, active sharded
runtime. Production_V2 includes CLY1 running on Release 9.4, and CLY2
and CLY3 running on Release 9.3.
Note: Later,
you can upgrade the other colonies, CLY2 and CLY3, to Production_V2
by following the same tasks that you performed to upgrade CLY1 to
the production environment. The only exception is that you must create
a new upgrade environment every time you upgrade a colony from the
sharded deployment to Production_V2. For example, if six months after
upgrading CLY1 to Production_V2 you want to upgrade CLY2 to Production_V2,
you must create a new upgrade environment. You cannot use Upgrade_V1.