Upgrade Objectives and Priorities

An upgrade plan reflects your upgrade objectives and priorities, which often depend on the scope and complexity of your existing deployment architecture.

For example, your Java ES deployment architecture might consist of a single Java ES component running on a single computer, and your upgrade objective is to fix some bug in the previous software release. On the other hand, your Java ES deployment architecture might consist of a number of interdependent Java ES components deployed across a number of different computers, and your upgrade objective is to achieve some new functionality by upgrading the minimum number of components required to achieve that end with minimal downtime.

In general, the greater the number of Java ES components and the greater the number of computers in your deployment architecture, the more complex your upgrade plan will be.