I tried to upgrade from WPM 2.2 to the latest 3.0. It says it has to upgrade the platform to 2019.2
The platform upgrade occurs normally. After that, it says WPM 2.2 is incompatible with the new platform and the installer errors out. Additionally, it partially removes 2.2. If I attempt to re-run the installer it gives the same incompatibility message. If I go into Control Panel and attempt to remove 2.2, it can't find the uninstaller. Also, unsurprisingly, WPM no longer functions. Glad I took a snapshot.
Reverted to Snapshot. This time, attempted to remove 2.2 before upgrading. Nope, it just opens the installer with no option to remove products, only add them. WTF??
The 3.0 installer runs all pre-install checks with no warnings related to the upgrade. It just warns that it will attempt to also upgrade Players and asks if I took a backup of my DB.
This is the second time I've tried to upgrade a solarwinds product version and it bombed out. I ended up just building a new server from scratch last time. Is this a "fact of life" of Solarwinds upgrades or is there some hidden /stopsucking switch or intermediary upgrade I need to do that I don't know about?