Which is faster, 'reset and wipe an instance' or release then re-acquire an instance?

dsumner · ‎07-20-2015

for the developers instances. is it faster to 'reset and wipe an instance' or to release an instance and then get another one? i ask this because while acquiring sometimes happen immediately , reset and wipe can take hours.

Uncle Rob · ‎07-20-2015

I was mucking about with an app/update set load order problem a few weeks back. I think I did 5 rebuilds in a single day, so I wouldn't be surprised if its a little over an hour. I *THINK* I remember the instance being up and available before the developer.servicenow.com homepage caught up though.

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Uncle Rob · ‎07-20-2015

I've used my personal dev instance to do multiple scratch builds in a day. Last time I attempted was a few weeks back and I don't remember the wipe taking hours.

Mike Allen · ‎07-20-2015

Yeah, resetting took very little time in my experience. I reset mine quite often.

dsumner · ‎07-20-2015

I must be the unlucky one . I'm wondering if the reset and wipe is a manual process vs the provision of a new instance is automated. I don't have the timings of the last few that I did but they seemed to take a long while.

I am getting the kinks out of an update set that i want to make sure imports and commits cleanly . it requires me to have several iterations of test.

shashankjoshi · ‎07-20-2015

Hey Dan,

I would have choose to reset and wipe instance. (at least I will have assurance of having an instance )

don't know if you will get new instance immediately after releasing the existing one.

Regards,

Shashank Joshi