Upgrade SharePoint 2013 foundation virtual machine to SharePoint 2019 questions

Question

Single server SP 2013 foundation farm with a low amount of users.

SP 2013 foundation is running on a Hyper-V virtual machine with a server 2016 host.

SP 2019 might run on a virtual machine on a server 2016 or 2019 Hyper-V host.

Do I need to upgrade to 2016 and then 2019 or can I go straight from 2013 to 2019?

Any complications running SP on a virtual machine?

Would 16 GB RAM, 4 virtual cores be sufficient for SP 2019?

Any known major setup difference/requirements between SP 2013 foundation and SP 2019?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Susan Dodds ,

There is no direct upgrade path from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2019 if you don’t plan to use third-party tools. To upgrade from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2019 we must first upgrade to a temporary SharePoint 2016 farm and then migrate to SharePoint 2019. This article is an overview about upgrading from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Server 2019: High level overview to upgrade from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Server 2019.

16 GB RAM, 4 virtual cores virtual machine is sufficient for SharePoint 2019. This article is an overview about Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2019: Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2019.

Per my knowledge, there is no major setup difference between SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2019. As requirements for SharePoint 2019 you could refer to the article above.

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Answer 2

Hello @Susan Dodds

Do I need to upgrade to 2016 and then 2019 or can I go straight from 2013 to 2019?

There is no direct upgrade path from 2013 to 2019. To upgrade to SharePoint Server 2019, you must upgrade SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Server 2016, and then upgrade to SharePoint Server 2019.

High level overview to upgrade from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Server 2019
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/upgrade-and-update/upgrade-from-sharepoint2013-to-sharepointserver-2019

Would 16 GB RAM, 4 virtual cores be sufficient for SP 2019?

Single server role that uses SQL Server; Pilot or user acceptance test installation of SharePoint Server 2019 running all available services for development environments; 24 GB, 64-bit, 4 cores

Single server role that uses SQL Server; Development or evaluation installation of SharePoint Server 2019 with the minimum recommended services for development environments. Use the Single-Server farm role that will let you choose which service applications to provision. For additional information on Single-Server farm role; 16 GB 64-bit, 4 cores

Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2019
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/hardware-and-software-requirements-2019

Hope this helps with your query!

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