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Upgrade Solarwinds 2020.2 on Windows Server 2012 R2

I am planning to upgrade our Orion from 2018.2 HF3 to the latest 2020.2 but one of my concern is the OS, I am currently using Windows Server 2012 R2 which is the minimum requirement.

Previously we have tried to do the upgrade but we got a warning stating that we need to do an upgrade on the OS but currently, when I ran the installer, there were none stated on the OS. I think probably Solarwinds has downgraded the requirements on the OS but does anyone had the experience of installing Solarwinds 2020.2 on a Windows Server 2012 R2? Any issue faced?

I am not able to upgrade to the Windows Server 2016 or later due to 'compliance' issue, so basically I am stuck with Windows Server 2012 R2. Logged a case to Solarwinds Support and it says 'recommended' but on their website, it was stated as allowed, so it is a bit of confusing here. Thanks in advance for the help.

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shuth

I haven't tried the 2020.2 upgrade on a Windows 2012 server but your scenario is why SolarWinds re-introduced support for 2012 back into the product suite.

Here is a blog article on it: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Geek-Speak-Blogs/Upgrade-Empathy/ba-p/598453

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shuth

I haven't tried the 2020.2 upgrade on a Windows 2012 server but your scenario is why SolarWinds re-introduced support for 2012 back into the product suite.

Here is a blog article on it: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Geek-Speak-Blogs/Upgrade-Empathy/ba-p/598453

oithim_yew

@shuth that would be sufficient for me to do an upgrade, thanks for the info

sreenathmp

I too going through the same kind of scenario. Probably this suggestion from Neomatrix will be helpful to you.

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Discussions/Upgrade-of-Orion-2017-3/m-p/598297#M147945

anmolk

Hello,

How did your upgrade go ?

Thanks

Anmol

oithim_yew

we're still planning, although the upgrade seems to easy but most of the upgrade that we did, we encounter a lot of weird issues. but since we were assured that we are good to go, i think there should not be any issue in terms of requirements.