I currently have a Production View instance with a few hundred users, that is running View 5.3 on vCenter 5.5 U1. We want to do an upgrade to View 6, but I was curious about potentially installing and setting up a completely new View instance (new primary, replica, and composer) with different names and different IPs, that were all running View 6. This would allow us to test out View 6, some new parent desktop images we built, and the newer version of AppSense that we want to start using. If I can have a separate environment where we could do all our testing, then when the time comes we could just tell our users to switch over to using the new one, and simply take down the old.
My question is would there be any issue having two instances of View pointing to the same vCenter server? The connection servers and composer servers would be completely seperate, but they would have to point to the same vCenter server. The new instance would remain quite small as we do our testing, and would only scale up at the point we are ready to move everyone over.
Has anyone done this kind of side-by-side upgrade before, or know of any potential issues?
Thanks.
