SharePoint 2013 visual upgrade: Behind the Scene

Hello,
I recently migrated site collection from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. But is not visually upgraded yet. I wanted to create evaluation site collection before actual upgrading. My questions are:
1) Will it create a new Web application?
2) Will it extend a the existing web application?
3) will it create only a new site collection? If yes, will the size of content database become double?
I am worried about the size of content database, as my DB is almost 50 GB and haven't much space left.
any help would be really appreciated.

Hi Rizwan,
Evaluation Site Collections is a new feature in the SharePoint 2013 upgrade story. Evaluation Site Collections lend site collection administrators the ability to try out the 2013 version of their site collection before actually upgrading the production site
collection’s UI and content.
An upgrade evaluation site collection creates an upgraded version of the site in a new, separate copy of the site that is running on SharePoint 2013. Unlike visual upgrade in SharePoint Server 2010, the upgrade evaluation site collection is a complete copy
of the site collection, separate from the original. Actions taken in the upgrade evaluation do not affect the original site.
Evaluation site collections have a default expiration period of 30 days. And the evaluation site collection will also automatically be deleted when its parent production site collection is upgraded.
More information, please refer to the links:
http://sharepointengineer.com/2012/11/15/sharepoint-2010-to-2013-upgrade-step-by-step-2/#_Toc340767198
http://blog.fpweb.net/sharepoint-2013-evaluation-site-collections/
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Wendy
Wendy Li
TechNet Community Support

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CtsConnection.StartFlow: Failed to start the flow: Microsoft.ThesaurusDeployment. Exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException: Cannot start flow. The admin service is unavailable. Server stack trace:
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.HandleReply(ProxyOperationRuntime operation, ProxyRpc& rpc)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message) Exception rethrown
at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at Microsoft.Ceres.ContentEngine.Services.ContentIntegrationEngine.IContentIntegrationEngineManagementAgent.ExecuteFlow(String name, FlowEvaluationConfig config)
at Microsoft.Ceres.ContentEngine.ComponentClient.CtsConnection.StartFlow(String flowName, IDictionary`2 parameters)
MK Sin

Hi,
Please check if it is related to the primary search host controller, make sure it is enabled for the farm, then check results again.
$searchApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchLinguisticComponentsStatus -SearchApplication $searchApp
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchHostcontroller
Import-SPEnterpriseSearchThesaurus -SearchApplication $searchApp -Filename \\sp\custom_thesaurus.csv
Thanks
Daniel Yang
TechNet Community Support

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