Best way to migrate hosted feature services from 10.9.1 to 11.5?

Question

We are upgrading the 10.9.1 to 11.5 (New Infrastructure).

We have multiple Hosted feature services on ArcGIS Enterprise Data store 10.9.1. and we want to migrate those to whole new ArcGIS enterprise 11.5.

So what are best ways we can follow to migrate those Hosted Feature Service?

1. Can we use WEBGISDR? (but as we know not limited to Hosted Feature Service)
2. Export current HFS to FGDB and import the same in new environment?
3. Is there any way that we can automate this using python APIs?

jskinner · Answer

Hi @codethemap, you could use the Copy Hosted Feature Services tool in this toolset.

VenkataKondepati · Answer

Hi @codethemap,

Please review the documentation and prepare the steps.
ArcGIS Enterprise (Windows and Linux) | ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows and Linux documentation

The following is the high-level plan for reference.
1. Build a new 11.5 environment
2. Migrate Identity & Security
3. Inventory Existing Environment

4. Migrate content & Validate Hosted Feature Services (Cloning Content | ArcGIS API for Python | Esri Developer)
5. Application Validation & UAT
6. Freeze the old 10.9.1 environment, create backups, and repeat the steps for Production

7. Keep the old environment until users confirm that everything works as expected.

I hope this helps, and I'm happy to answer further questions.