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Tom_Ebert_93310
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Nov 06, 2015

Installing AVR

I am looking at installing a instance of AVR on my LTMs. I have the process down, but what I cannot seem to determine is how impacting the installation will be. Can I do the install and it will run a...
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THi
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Nov 07, 2015

Hi

 

We did provisioning of AVR last week first on 5200v pair with test and production vCMP guests. First on the test vCMP unit pair to see how it goes and to see the impact and after it on the production vCMP units. Provisioning was AVR "Nominal".

 

AVR provisioning was done first on an active test unit in an active-standby vCMP pair. The provisioning did an automatic failover to standby, then restarted tmm and probably some other daemons. Took about a minute or less on 5200 vCMP guest and no hiccups at all. Repeated it on the other vCMP test unit.

 

Being satisfied with the test units, we did the provisioning on the production units, this time first on the standby vCMP guest. After provisioning we forced a failover to get the other vCMP guest standby for provisioning. Finally forced the initial active unit back to active state. No problems at all.

 

Total elapsed time was less than 10 minutes for the two pairs and production impact was two failovers. So connections with no mirroring were impacted. Of course this was done in a planned maintenance window.

 

--thi