Licensing for VIPRION C2400 vCMP

Hi.

 

 

Detailed upgrade and installation instructions are always in the readme for the version youre installing. A simple upgrade is done either command line with install2disk or from the gui. The install goes to a new volume so you can boot, check the new version and if youre not happy, fallback by simply rebooting again to the old volume slot.

 

 

The hypervisor is just another copy of bigip. It should upgrade just like a guest or standalone bigip, But of course you need to make sure all your guests are running their groups in standby.

 

 

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Oh. Reactivating he license is the same as any other license. Just follow the gui instructions from the license area.

Hamish, does the Hypervisor instance need to be upgraded to new version of code before the Guests get upgraded?

i was able to upgrade guest without upgrading host. so, finally host and guest are running different version i.e. guest is newer.

 

 

i never upgraded host before but i think it could be fine.

HI Hamish and all,

 

 

Thanks for the reply. This is the first time I am upgrading VIPRIONS. I was wondering if you can guide me to a link whereby I can follow a step by step task to upgrade and downgrade etc. and some other impoertant things i need to note whilst upgrade

 

 

Appreciate your help on this

 

 

Regards , Kishore

i do not think procedure is different between viprion and another platform.

 

 

first we have to check whether license re-activation is required i.e. license check date, service check date.

 

 

sol7727: License activation may be required prior to software upgrade

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/700/sol7727.html

 

 

then uploading iso and using software managment screen or tmsh command to install.

 

 

Installing the software

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/product/relnote-ltm-11-2-0.htmlunique_1911167909

 

 

sol13563: Change in Behavior: Software management no longer allows you to create an empty volume set

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/500/sol13563

Thanks heaps nitass. Really appreciate your help :-)

 

 

Regards, Kishore

Hi,

 

Upgrading your c2400, did you have to set your guests to disabled \ provisioned to upgrade your host? Any addiontal steps required on c2400 host ?

 

 

Thanks

 

Posted By Nathan Houck on 06/28/2012 08:11 AM

 

Hamish, does the Hypervisor instance need to be upgraded to new version of code before the Guests get upgraded?

 

Not necessarily. There is a matrix of supported hypervisor and guest versions. From somewhere around 11.2.0 on the hypervisor you can go to at least 11.3.0. To get the new functionality from 11.4.0, you'd need to go to 11.4.0 on the hypervisor (e.g vCMP guests with more CPU/Memory).

 

H

 

Posted By Russ on 07/30/2013 07:55 AM

 

Hi,

 

Upgrading your c2400, did you have to set your guests to disabled \ provisioned to upgrade your host? Any addiontal steps required on c2400 host ?

 

 

Thanks

 

 

On a live environmrnt, I'd make sure there were no active traffic groups or GTM dispatched VS's being used before doing the hypervisor...

 

 

H