The following would be the steps for migrating QC: Please check the following link for the

Server-Side System Requirements: https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-12724^9679_4000_100__&jumpid=go/TDQC_SysReq The HP Quality Center Upgrade Assessment tool is specifically designed for Quality Center 9.0 and 9.2 and helps QC administrators to assess and plan Quality Center projects for future upgrades. With this tool the QC administrators will be able to reduce upgrade time and effort and lower the potential risk associated with the upgrade. Please note that the tool itself will not perform the upgrade to Quality Center 10.0. It only helps the QC administrators to prepare for the upgrade. This is achieved in 2 steps: 1. Verification: The tool analyzes the Quality Center 9.0 and 9.2 schema and data for compatibility with the new, Quality Center 10.0, schema. Typical issues associated with environment and schema structure are detected and reported in this step. The tool also provides recommendations to handle these issues proactively. 2. Modification: In the second step the tool modifies the data and schema so that the actual upgrade can progress with as little interruptions as Please use the following link to download the software and the readme file: http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM528440 for QC9.0 http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM525650 for QC9.2 Important Note: Customers that are using version control can upgrade the projects to QC 10 only after apply the patch 8, For more information, see HP Software Self-solve knowledge base article KM632120 Depending of the database version, check the following articles: For SQL 2005 SP2: Article KM169526: How to backup and restore MS SQL database Article KM186582: Minimum permissions needed for MS SQL in Quality Center For Oracle: Article KM205839: How to export and import an Oracle database to dump files Article KM186580: What are the minimum permissions for Oracle in Quality Center Here the steps you need to do after the above recommendations in order to migrate your projects: 1. Take a backup of project schemas to be migrated from the QC 9.x database server. Ask help to your DBA. 2. Take a backup of project repositories from the QC 9.x server. The repository location will be: <system drive>/Program Files/Mercury Interactive/repository/qc/<domain name>/<project name>. Remember that repository over Database is not available in Quality Center 10.00, in case one of your projects repository would be stored on the Database you may use the Tool for migrating the Project

Repository from the Database to the File System which was enhanced on QC 9.2 after patch 11 and for QC 9.0 after patch 26. After you change the repository to the File System, copy these project repositories folders. Document ID KM189097 - What needs to be backed up when backing up QC projects for more information. 3. Restore the project schemas on the QC 10 database server. Note 2: regarding how to make backups and how to restore the project schemas and your site administrator schema you should be in contact with your DBA. During the installation of QC10 make sure to point to the existing Site Administrator schema and use it than overwriting it. It will also ask for the site administrator user name and password that will be use to login into the site administrator the first time after the upgrade. You can use any existing QC9.2 userid (preferable someone that will perform as an admin). Also the project directory should point to your existing domain repository that needs to be store in the file system. So in order to use the existing site admin schema ask your DBA to create a backup of the qcsiteadmin_db and restore it in the new database server after that, install QC10 and use the option: upgraded existing schema. 4. Paste/Restore the repository in the repository folder of the QC10 server under the appropriate domain folder. 5. Create a new dummy project in QC10. With new dummy I refer to create an empty project in the new QC10 server, when you create a new project a new dbid.xml will be create and you can use it for the old projects. 6. Go to the newly created projects dbid.xml file. 7. Modify the migrated project''s dbid.xml file by comparing it with the newly created Project''s xml file. In this file you should change: ** PROJECT NAME ** DB_NAME ** PHYSICAL_DIRECTORY - Copy the new project''s dbid.xml 8. Save the changes. 9. Open the modified dbid.xml file of migrated project and make sure that all the parameter values are correct and are in accordance with the QC10 project''s file. 10. Go to Site projects tab in QC10 Site administration. 11. Click on Restore project. 12. Navigate to the path of modified dbid.xml file on the QC10 server machine. 13. Choose the domain name. 14. Restore the project. 15. Refresh the GUI, search the migrated project 16. Right click on it and select Maintain Project/Verify Project. 17. If you have or not issues on point 16, you always need to click also in: Maintain Project/Repair Project. In case you have issues here, please send to me the screenshots with the error messages. 18. Finally click on Maintain Project/Upgrade the project. After this you will have your project ready to use in QC10.