I'm gearing up to either upgrade or migrate to 7.6 . Aside from 6.x --> 7.x I've always upgraded. Going from 7.5 to 7.6 via upgrade I'm assuming I'll still need to manually apply HF9 post upgrade. So the way I see it I have the pain of the upgrade to 7.6 + the pain of applying the hotfix. Both of these tasks have caused me a ton of grief in production so the thought is not super appealing. The idea of building out a working 7.6 HF9 environment and migrating sounds like a cleaner way but also a lot of work building everything out from the ground up again. We have a fully distributed environment which has had a lot of tweaking done over the years and it is all really stable when not trying to get through an upgrade. Since I've not been migrating I have no experience on how clean or error prone/free the process is. I find myself stuck square in the middle of which route to take. I'm curious if others on here might share some opinions. It would be much appreciated.
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