V11 Go Live Weekend Overview

The purpose of this article is to give Upgrade Clients a peek into the events that will happen over the v11 Live system
upgrade weekend. During an upgrade weekend, the system will be totally UNAVAILABLE! If you have weekend clinics,
arrangements will need to be made for a "View Only" system, printed charts or access to Patient charts using a product
such as Galen's VitalCenter system.

Please note: that this is a high level overview. This process will be discussed in high detail during regular upgrade meetings.

Friday Night approx 5:00-6:00 PM the system is shut down and Backups started
The system must be brought down at this time to ensure enough time for backups and upgrade work.

• All users must be logged out or risk being kicked out and losing data!
• The Clients IT team will stop IIS and Interfaces to ensure that data cannot be entered into the system.
• The IT team with then begin backing up all databases.
  • It's critical that the backups be available to the upgrade technician if needed.
  • It's also critical that copies of the backups be written off to a second, secure location.

Depending on file sizes, hardware and backup strategy this can take several hours to complete.

• Upon completion of the backups, the client will notify the Upgrade Technician

Friday Night approx 9:00 - 11:00 PM the Upgrade Technician begins the Upgrade Process

• The upgrade starts with upgrading the Web Framework to at least version 4.09.x if not already done.
• The v11 Upgrade is then started on the Databases.

This process requires hundreds of scripts to be run, potentially taking 4-12 plus hours!

• Some of the scripts are updates to SQL Store Procedures while others move Clinical data within the system.
  • Note: There are NO changes that occur to SQL itself. All changes reside in the AHS databases.