Upgrading to R81.20 in Azure

[russell_perera]

Hi All,

I need to upgrade our R80.40 cluster in Azure to R81.20.  In-place upgrades have failed and according to support and sk180769 we need to upgrade by deploying another cluster into the same subnets.  I have been following this document below.

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/IaaS/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_CloudGuard_Network_for_Azure_HA_Clust...

The R81.20 cluster deployment fails at the backend-lb. 

My existing R80.40 cluster eth1 (inside) network is 10.28.1.32/27.  The existing backend-lb is using 10.28.1.36 as the lb IP.  The template is trying to assign the same IP to the new backend-lb it is trying to deploy and failing.

Has anyone tried this recently?  I followed the same procedure when we went from R80.30 to R80.40 and didn't have this issue.

Thanks

[natanelm · Accepted solution]

Hi @russell_perera,

We have encountered some issues with Azure's function (Microsoft side) that assigns the first available IP of the subnet in our deployment.

As a workaround, you can use the custom template deployment option and specify a start IP address of your choice (Subnet1Start Address/Subnet2Start Address).

GitHub Link: https://github.com/CheckPointSW/CloudGuardIaaS/tree/master/azure/templates 

Direct link for HA custom deployment: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FCh... 

Thanks,
Natanel

[russell_perera]

Thanks @natanelm that worked.  I was able to deploy via a custom template.