Migrate from Server to Data Center
This page outlines the process for upgrading an existing Confluence Server site to Confluence Data Center.
If you're installing Confluence for the first time (you don't have any existing Confluence data to migrate), see Installing Confluence Data Center.
On this page:
Before you begin
Things you should know about when setting up your Data Center:
There’s a known issue during setup where a load balancer (or proxy) pings the server and breaks Confluence installation or migration to Data Center. See
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During installation, you need to disable load balancer health checks and make sure you don’t open multiple tabs that point to the same Confluence URL.
Migrate to non-clustered Data Center
Review and upgrade your apps
If you have any apps installed on your site, you’ll need to upgrade to the Data Center app version, if one is available. To avoid any impact to your apps, we recommend you do this before you enter your Confluence Data Center license key. Learn more about Upgrading Server apps when you migrate to Data Center.
Upgrade your Confluence license
To move from Confluence Server to Confluence Data Center:
- Go to > General Configuration
- Choose License Details from the sidebar under the Administration heading
- Enter your Confluence Data Center license key.
There's no need to restart Confluence. Data Center features such as read-only mode, SAML single sign-on, and CDN will now be available.
Set up your cluster
If your organisation requires continuous uptime, scalability, and performance under heavy load, you'll want to run Confluence Data Center in a cluster.
To find out more about clustering, including infrastructure requirements see Clustering with Confluence Data Center.
If you're ready to set up your cluster now, head to Set up a Confluence Data Center cluster.
Looking to migrate all your Atlassian applications to Data Center? We’ve got you covered:
- Upgrade from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Data Center
- Migrate to Crowd Data Center
- Migrate to Confluence Data Center
- Migrate to Jira Data Center
- Upgrade from Bamboo Server to Bamboo Data Center
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