Visvanath Ratnaweera

What you need to do is explained here:
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_migration

Hi

Tobias Marx wrote:
> Thanks for your reference to that threat!

It was not my intension to threaten you. When I think of it, the Moodle release cylce makes the lives of system administrators miserable, that way it is a threat their health.
;-(

You might want to rate that warning as Useful, if it really was.

> I've got now a better understanding of Moodle's release cycle, etc.

Would you share your findings here?

> And after reading it I'm even more encouraged in my opinion, that Moodle's LTS, in it current shape, doesn't make any sense at all!

The question is, to whom?

> I will have to discuss with my colleagues, how to proceed now. I think we will have to upgrade to 2.8 to get those core fixes, even if we really don't have the resources to test annual upgrades, pray for working 3d-party plugins and fix our theme(s) sad

Others have already started suggesting migration strategies. Good luck!

> And just to put our Moodle installation in context. We have over 5000 courses and 12000 active users.

Yours must be a big and slow government institution. Moodle is made for the User!
:-?

> There will be a meeting of german universities which are using Moodle in September. I'm sure there will be a lot of discussions on that topic.

Are (German speaking) southern neighbours welcome?

Something for https://docs.moodle.org/en/Administration_via_command_line ?

Colin

Do you know that a Moodle site on MySQL can be transferred to MSSQL, or you believe it could be done or you need to do it one day and hope somebody will come up with a solution?
;-P

I don't know how virtualization popped up here. The OP and the control example, that of Frankle, both are dedicated hardware.