EV Upgrade with no Vault Store partition

Guys,

Need an opinion on this:

Setup:

• Upgrading a client going from 9.0.4 to 11.0.1 in 2 stages.First stage is 10.0.4.

• Current system is ev 9.0.4 on win 2003.  Migrating to 2012 server using EV migrate tool.

• Sql and indexes available to new ev server

• Vault Store partition will not be available to the new server right away.It could take 6 weeks to copy completely.

Question:

• Do you think I can do the upgrade successfully without the actual VS partiion being available to the new server?  In 10.0.4 starting the storage service upgrades the vault store db itself.  I don’t know though if it needs also the VS partition, if it writes or updates anything there.

Thanks,

Fremont