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Stefan_Klotz
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Dec 11, 2014

Standby LB becomes Active during HA software update

Normally a software update within the same major release and especially just a Hotfix update is a very easy and less critical task without any downtime. We are using the following steps:   relice...
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    Stefan_Klotz
    Jun 11, 2019

    Let me answer this by myself again.

    The above mentioned steps are still fine, but what we did for a while now is setting the standby-LB into offline mode before booting into the new partition. With this the LB will also come up again in offline mode. When you then release offline mode it will always become correctly the standby-LB.

    Hope this might help someone out there.

     

    Ciao Stefan :)

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Stefan_Klotz
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Jun 12, 2019

Hi Mike,

thanks for the hint! I wasn't aware of that as we are not using/working with Viprions or vCMPs.

I think most of the others out there as well, but nethertheless good to know.

 

Ciao Stefan :)