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The Ultimate Upgrade Nicholas Garcia Bell Helicopter Textron. 1. Agenda. Who am I? What are we doing? Why are we doing it? How are we doing it? Are we going to do this again? Questions. Who am I?. Nicholas Garcia Bell Helicopter Textron IT CAD/CAM Fort Worth, TX - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Ultimate UpgradeNicholas GarciaBell Helicopter Textron
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Agenda
Who am I?
What are we doing?
Why are we doing it? How are we doing it? Are we going to do this again?
Questions
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Who am I?
Nicholas Garcia
Bell Helicopter Textron
IT CAD/CAM Fort Worth, TX
(817) 280-6484
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Who am I?
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What are we doing?
Upgrade from NX 1 to NX 5
Upgrade from Teamcenter Engineering 9.1.3 to Teamcenter Engineering 2007
Migrate workstations from AIX Unix to Windows XP Migrate from 32-bit to 64-bit Migrate servers from AIX to Windows
Decommission Multi-site
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Why are we doing it?
Current Environment ~200 AIX 5.3 Workstations NX 1 on AIX Teamcenter Engineering 9 on AIX and Oracle 9i
2.5 Terabytes of NX Data
Multi-site for WAN
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Why are we doing it?
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Why are we doing it?
Issues Loading times unacceptable Multi-site sync issues NX 1 “no patch” issues
No disk space for growth
“View” only capabilities Users want to be current No-support/EOL on current software versions
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Why are we doing it?
Future Environment ~200 Windows XP 64-bit Workstations NX 5 64-bit on Windows Teamcenter 2007 on Windows
4 Terabytes total disk space
2-tier for “local” sites (DFW Area) 4-tier w/Site Cache for remote sites No Multi-site!!!
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Why are we doing it?
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How did we do it?
Background Oct 2006 Project initiation Upgrade from TCe 8 to TCe 9 Move from HP-UX to AIX
NX 3 or NX 4?
What are the real issues?
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How did we do it?
Review Current Environment Users
~200 Users
4 Sites
Data 2.4 Terabytes
Multisite between sites Very large assemblies that do not open
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How did we do it?
Review Current Environment Processes
Over 70 customizations in NX
10 Customizations in TCe
Hardware AIX Servers
AIX Storage Oracle Database
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How did we do it?
Review Solutions NX 3 vs NX 4 vs NX 5 (remember this was around
July 2007) Begin testing of Windows 32/64-bit vs AIX 32/64-bit Compare NX 4 and NX 5 (NX 3 decided to be
outdated)
Test everything with TCe 9
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How did we do it?
Decisions October 2007 Loading capabilities with Windows showed to be
greatly improved NX 4
Teamcenter 9
How do we rollout?
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How did we do it?
Rollout options Upgrade to NX 4 on AIX then migrate to Windows as
needed Migrate to Windows with NX 1 then upgrade to NX 4 Mix environments with some users on Windows and
some on Unix
Final Decision:
Full Migration to NX 4, TCe 2005 and Windows in one weekend
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How did we do it?
Getting Started Current skillset and past experiences (NX 1 upgrade)
showed that we needed assistance INCAT contracted to provide technical expertise,
coding upgrades and training CSC supports Bell infrastructure
Goal was for Mid-year 2008 rollout, which changes the targets
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How did we do it?
Moore’s Law 12+ months since project first started NX 5.0.1 was available Teamcenter 2007 was available
New Hardware (Quad Core) for Windows PC’s
All this means change in scope!
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How did we do it?
Hardware Definition and Acquisition Compare 64-bit CAD compatible PC’s Define and order
Servers
Disk Storage Workstations
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How did we do it?
PC Workstations New at Bell Windows XP 64-bit Dual Quad Core Intel
8 GB Memory
2 x 250 GB Raid 1 Hard Drive (great for caching)
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How did we do it?
Now for the fun stuff Customizations Server installation Client installation
Training
Testing Results? Go Live
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How did we do it?
Customizations Needed before any testing can occur Gather all source code (very little in source control) Give to Incat to upgrade and migrate
Answer lots of questions about purpose, functionality and processes
Some don’t work because no longer on AIX How do we handle these?
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How did we do it?
Server Installation 3 Environments
Sandbox (Development)
Test (Full copy of production, during project only) Production
Multi-site Decommission Stop creation of new parts at external site Migrate all data back to single site (not an easy task)
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How did we do it?
Server Installation Sandbox Proof of Concept Functionality only testing Limited dataset
Use of existing desktop for immediate rollout
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How did we do it?
Server Installation Test Production server hardware Full copy of production Data migration
200GB Limit for backup/restore 4TB at 200GB = 20 different mounts
2 weeks to migrate data from Unix
Database migration
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How did we do it?
Server Installation Test Install Teamcenter 9 to verify database connections Install Teamcenter 2007 on Server Perform upgrade to Teamcenter 2007
NX 5 data upgrade? On the fly upon opening
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How did we do it?
Client Installation Create similar share on Windows Installation process automated as much as possible
with batch files, which reduced install time from 2 hours to 25 minutes
Small quirks are annoying NX installation warning Adding user id to XML install file
No silent install for patches
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How did we do it?
Client Installation 150 PC Workstations ordered, imaged, and delivered 60 were “refreshes” 2 months to rollout
All were ready prior to go live
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How did we do it?
Training Outsourced, onsite training 6 weeks, 3 locations, 150+ users, 32 hours each Pilot training class with Super Users in Engineering
and Manufacturing
Courses available online after classes
Documentation, CAST, I.GET.IT for additional functionality
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How did we do it?
Testing Basic Functionality performed by core team Sandbox used for code verification Test system used for performance, load and timing
tests
Pilot training class users asked to do “real” work in test system
Refresh of test system with production data
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How did we do it?
Testing Printing and Plotting changes New functionality Non-Project related issues
Moving to Windows Downstream processes 64-bit
Integrations with other systems How to support Windows
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How did we do it?
ResultsP/N
Load & Save Times (s)
NX1 (UNIX) (baseline)
NX5 - 1st (Initial load in
Windows)
NX5 - 2nd (Same w/s -
cached)
DFW Part 1 8 22 3
Part 2 230 488 52
Part 3 242 629 96
Part 4 536 698 173
Part 5 874 627 352
Part 6 827 706 191
Part 7 31 20 9
AMA
Part 1 41 25 10
Part 2 1258 705 281
Part 3 1057 656 255
Part 4 1255 537
Part 7 82 81 53
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How did we do it?
Go Live 2 Dry Runs to ensure timing Perform “sync” between production and test system
volumes Copy production database to test
Perform upgrade and ensure timing is correct
Everything is ready prior to go live
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How did we do it?
Go Live June 16th
Friday 3:30 pm – Monday 6 am Coordination across 5 Plants, 2 cities
Coordination between 3 companies: Bell, CSC, Incat
1 Team to make it happen
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How did we do it?
Lessons Learned Get help if needed Hardware migration is hard Dry Runs are useful for timing
64-bit migration may have issues
Hardware/software changes quickly
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What did we do again?
Upgraded NX 4 versions
Upgraded Teamcenter 3 versions
Migrated from Windows to Unix on Clients Migrated from Windows to Unix on Servers Migrated from 32-bit to 64-bit
All in one weekend!
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Are we going to do this again?
NO
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Are we going to do this again?
Install Patches
Review new releases of TCe and NX
Review new hardware Continual process improvements
