BW Upgrade Strategy

Hello!
We are planning to perform a BW upgrade strategy - BW 3.x to BI 7.0. Without enough experience in doing upgrade, an alternative strategy is formed. Will this be possible?
1. Install BI 7.0 on a new box
2. Create connection of BI 7.0 with source systems
3. Replicate exisitng objects from BW 3.x
4. Load history data
If this is possible, how would other objects such as user master data, roles and profiles (basically non-BW objects) be replicated/migrated in the new BI 7.0 also?
TIA!

Usually the upgrade strategy would be to do a technical upgrade and then do a functional upgrade later on. From your process im not sure what you plan to achieve when u say replicate existing objects after new installation. Do you want to create those again in BI7?? That depends on how much stuff you have developed in ur BW. If you just do an upgrade on a 3.5 system, you dont have to worry about loading data.
As far as roles go , BI7 uses analysis authorization which is different from 3.5, so you have a provision of not switcing it on and still using the 3.5 secuirty and there is migration tool that lets you convert these to 7.0 when u r ready.
Gokul

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Thanks again for your input.
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Hi Experts -
Looking for some help from the forum.
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Thanks Bala for your quick response.
Reading through forums I have learnt the same but what is confusing me is another post on SDN by 'Karen Smeltz'. If you search with 'Usage Types Required for NW 7.0 Upgrade' in the search fields and read through reply from 'Jon *****', it paints a completely different picture. I quote the same for your reference.
QUOTE:
(Question by Karen)
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Future upgradeability - ever since upgrading and discovering our own mistake we've been searching for a way to upgrade to the BI Java version. There is no supported way to add the BI Java and EP components after you upgrade. We are now considering a green-field implementation combined with a migration.
Unfortunately I don't have any links to share with you but we were able to find all the information we needed to realize our mistake (too late in our case) right here on SDN and through OSS.
I strongly urge you to upgrade to the BI Java/EP version of BI 7.0. If for no other reason than you will be able to actually follow all the "how-to" guides and performance tuning documentation that SAP provides. Otherwise, you'll find precious little information.
Hope this helps.
-Jon
UNQUOTE
Jon, if you are reading this thread then please let me know what has been your experience and what do you recommend for us who are planning for a pure technical upgrade with later addition of JAVA stack.
AKS

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My Question:
Why do we upgrade the primary kernel AND the fallback at the same time? For example ubuntu retains the old kernels in menu.lst in case of problems.
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Last edited by chender (2009-10-10 20:58:28)

That's not a fallback kernel. It's a fallback initrd. The only difference is that the fallback contains every driver that could be useful for booting, rather than just the ones detected as needed when they are built.
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Edit: too slow.
Last edited by ataraxia (2009-10-10 21:04:25)

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