Upgrade Milvus 3.0: What's New and How to Get There

This webinar provides a practical guide to upgrading from Milvus 2.6 to Milvus 3.0. Hosted by Jiang Chen and presented by Jae Gu, Developer Advocate at Zilliz and former Milvus engineer, the session covers what’s new in Milvus 3.0, how to prepare for a safe upgrade, in-place and backup-based migration options, a live upgrade demo using Milvus Operator, and post-upgrade validation. What you'll learn: ✦ What Milvus 3.0 adds across Storage V3, External Collection, Snapshot, schema evolution, entity-level TTL, grouping, sorting, and aggregations ✦ Which cluster health, background job, metadata, segment, index, capacity, and backup checks to complete before upgrading ✦ How to record collection schemas, entity counts, index settings, and segment states for post-upgrade comparison ✦ How to build repeatable client smoke tests for load, release, insert, search, hybrid search, and other critical operations ✦ Why an in-place upgrade to Milvus 3.0 requires Milvus 2.6.24 or later ✦ Which Milvus components and deployment requirements change in version 3.0 ✦ How rollout behavior and temporary resource requirements differ across Standalone, Milvus Operator, and Helm deployments ✦ How to use Birdwatcher and Milvus Backup to prepare for and validate an upgrade ✦ How to perform an in-place upgrade from Milvus 2.6.24 to 3.0.2 using Milvus Operator ✦ When backup-based migration to a new Milvus 3.0 cluster may be safer than an in-place upgrade ✦ How to validate cluster health, metadata, data integrity, SDK behavior, and search results after upgrading ✦ Why format-changing features such as Storage V3 should remain disabled until validation is complete if rollback to Milvus 2.6 must remain possible Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and webinar overview 04:43 Milvus 2.6 to 3.0: Goals and what’s new 09:23 Preparing for a safe upgrade 14:11 In-place upgrade requirements and rollout options 17:52 Live demo: Upgrading Milvus 2.6.24 to 3.0.2 32:11 Backup-based migration and post-upgrade validation 34:32 Managed upgrades with Zilliz Cloud 36:42 Q&A 57:35 Closing remarks Slides from this webinar are available here: https://24054828.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/24054828/Webinars/Webinar%20Upgrade%20to%20Milvus%203.0%2020260923.pdf Explore the tools and resources featured in this webinar: Milvus Documentation: https://milvus.io/docs Milvus 3.0 Release Notes: https://milvus.io/docs/release_notes.md Birdwatcher: https://github.com/milvus-io/birdwatcher Milvus Backup: https://github.com/zilliztech/milvus-backup Milvus Sizing Tool: https://milvus.io/tools/sizing Join the Milvus Community: https://milvus.io/slack Find us on: Zilliz Website: https://zilliz.com Milvus Website: https://milvus.io Zilliz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zilliz/ Milvus LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/67143129 Milvus X: https://x.com/milvusio Milvus GitHub: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus Try Zilliz Cloud: https://cloud.zilliz.com/signup