I have been running UTM9 on several of our sites for several months now on our sites that are not running Active/Passive HA setups and they seem to be running well. I think we're ready to upgrade our 220 HA to UTM9. What is the recommend process? Will the one-touch upgrade just run or is there a special dance we need to do to get it right? I'm envisioning it being simple like this: Trigger One-Touch Upgrade on HA Master HA Master Updates and Reboots HA Slave Fails Over While HA Master Boots HA Slave Upgrades to UTM9 and Reboots, completing upgrade HA Master becomes primary again during failover from HA Slave It sounds good on paper, but my gut tells me that there is more to it. I have seen in some early threads from late 2012 where one of the units had to be shut down but I'm wondering if that is correct or if that's still needed. If this was covered somewhere else and I missed it, please direct me where this is laid out. Thanks in advance.

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v8.309 -> UTM9 220 Active/Passive HA Upgrade Process

I have been running UTM9 on several of our sites for several months now on our sites that are not running Active/Passive HA setups and they seem to be running well. I think we're ready to upgrade our 220 HA to UTM9.

What is the recommend process? Will the one-touch upgrade just run or is there a special dance we need to do to get it right?

I'm envisioning it being simple like this:

Trigger One-Touch Upgrade on HA Master
HA Master Updates and Reboots
HA Slave Fails Over While HA Master Boots
HA Slave Upgrades to UTM9 and Reboots, completing upgrade
HA Master becomes primary again during failover from HA Slave

It sounds good on paper, but my gut tells me that there is more to it. I have seen in some early threads from late 2012 where one of the units had to be shut down but I'm wondering if that is correct or if that's still needed.

If this was covered somewhere else and I missed it, please direct me where this is laid out.

Thanks in advance.

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0 mrwebguy over 12 years ago

And, as promised, I can confirm that the process is as described.

The slave node upgrades first, fails over, upgrades the master node, reboots and fails over back into the master.  Then it installs 5 updates to get it to 9.1 and the reboot/failover process begins again.  When the dust settles, everything seems nice and smooth... and most importantly, I didn't have to make a midnight 6 hour drive to Atlanta.

We're running a pair of 220s with 3 wireless AP50's and 3 tunnels.  No downtime reported by any of our monitoring systems so all good.

Thanks for the input guys.  Now, there is a post about what to expect when you upgrade an HA system from v8 to v9.
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0 mrwebguy over 12 years ago

And, as promised, I can confirm that the process is as described.

The slave node upgrades first, fails over, upgrades the master node, reboots and fails over back into the master.  Then it installs 5 updates to get it to 9.1 and the reboot/failover process begins again.  When the dust settles, everything seems nice and smooth... and most importantly, I didn't have to make a midnight 6 hour drive to Atlanta.

We're running a pair of 220s with 3 wireless AP50's and 3 tunnels.  No downtime reported by any of our monitoring systems so all good.

Thanks for the input guys.  Now, there is a post about what to expect when you upgrade an HA system from v8 to v9.
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