15.0 Replacing the PTM Appliance VM

To upgrade from PlateSpin Transformation Manager 2019.2 to PlateSpin Transformation Manager 2019.5, you will deploy a replacement virtual machine image for the PTM Appliance, and import your old data to the new database on the replacement Disk 2 (/vastorage).

The PTM Appliance OVF file provides an new appliance template with the following changes:

  • PlateSpin Transformation Manager Server and any software package dependencies

  • PlateSpin Migrate Connector and any software package dependencies

  • PTM database schema changes

    PostgreSQL 10 is included on the PTM Appliance.

The upgrade deployment opens the Appliance Management Console and prompts you to set passwords for the vaadmin user and root user for the new appliance, and then completes the upgrade.

You will copy the old Disk 2 to the new deployment location and attach it temporarily as Disk 3 to the replacement virtual machine while you import the old data to the new database.