Migrate or upgrade?

[cepums]

Hi!

I have simple question -
* real computer with SSD (Windows 10 installed) and separate 4TB HDD (Alfresco Community 5.0d installed)

Now I want migrate all OS and Alfresco to new server on Hyper-V. So I will migrate Windows 10 to Hyper-V, but how I can migrate Alfresco to Hyper-V if it's installed on separate disk? Do I need put that HDD in server and configure Hyper-V to also use that HDD?

Or do I look for new Alfresco Community version (upgrade) and migrate Alfresco database (5.0d to new)? So if I will choose migrate Alfresco database, how I can do this?

Thanks!

[eswbitto]

You would need to migrate the database and the repository to your new server. Basically saying take a backup of both the database and the alf_data directory and point your new install of alfresco (from the new server) and implement your backup from there.

There is plenty of information that goes into detail of how to achieve this. (Google is your friend)