Upgrade Guide with ISO and Template

Important

This guide is only used to upgrade to a major version release, for example, 24.x, 25.x. For Patch Bundle upgrades, use the Upgrade Guide with Delta or Patch Bundle document.

Prepare for Upgrade

• Before upgrading
  • Dependencies
  • Versions
  • Maintenance windows and upgrade duration
• Upgrade and data migration
• Using the screen command
  • Overview
  • Create a screen log file
• Using the tmux command
  • On-line help
• Automate hardware specifications
  • Overview
  • Unified node hardware specifications
  • Modular cluster hardware specifications
  • Add disks in the AWS or MS Azure cloud hosted platform

Upgrade (all topologies)

• Upgrade Automate
  • Overview
  • Before you start
  • Prior to maintenance window
    • Verify the primary database node and application node
    • Download and check files
    • Version check
  • Maintenance window
    • Security and health checks
    • Validate system health
    • Pre-upgrade
    • Upgrade
    • Post-upgrade and health check
    • Database schema upgrade
    • Template upgrade
    • Post-template upgrade
    • Log files and error checks
  • Post-maintenance window
    • End maintenance window and restore schedules
    • Licensing
    • Mount the Insights disk