Hi,
My management would like me to test an upgrade to SP2013. I have whatever virtual servers I need available to me.
Ideally what I would like to do is create a new farm and then perform the upgrade, which will run side-by-side with our existing 2010 installation - i.e. the 2013 version will be for my use only, and normal users will continue to use the old 2010 installation. The content database attached to the 2013 installation will be completely separate, and on separate servers.
In all of the TechNet documentation, it shows to configure the web applications using identical URLs to the production environment. Would I be ok to set up with new URLs and still perform the upgrade as described?
Our current set-up is 1x WFE, 1x App server and 1x DB server. Does my testing environment architecture need to match our production environment, or will the upgrade work if I set up as a single-server installation.
Thanks for your help,
Jo