Hi Guys..My first post on the forum so please bear with me
Goal: Upgrading our R77.30 Mgmt HA deployment (Virtual Machines) to R80.10 (virtual machines) HA..
Reading through various CP docs and the forums, I have prepared a step-by-step procedure and I shall be grateful if someone can validate this for me.
Hopefull this would be of help to others as well
Procedure
Primary Server
- Run pre_upgrade_verifier tool on source R77.30 Primary (Active) Mgmt server and resolve any errors/warnings
- Provision two new VMs using recommendations specified in R80.10 release notes (pg 16)
- Perform clean install of an R80.10 SMS on the first VM using iso and assign temporary IP address but same hostname as R77.30 source server
- Export the database using migrate_export from source (R77.30) Primary/Active SMS and note down the MD5 hash
- Transfer the exported DB to target (R80.10) SMS server and verify MD5 hash. (This is why we need temporary IP in Step 2)
- Disconnect target R80.10 SMS server from the network
- From VMWare console, change the IP address for R80.10 SMS to be the same as R77.30
- Run migrate_import to import the DB on the R80.10 SMS
- Disconnect source (R77.30) SMS HA pair from the network. At this point firewalls are logging locally
- Bring new R80.10 SMS online
- Ensure SIC is maintained (since hosntame and IP are the same, SIC should not be affected.. right?) and firewalls are logging to the New R80.10 server
- Install a policy to validate migration
Management HA
- Perform a clean install of R80.10 SMS on new Secondary SMS server with same IP as current (R77.30) standby SMS server
- Establish SIC with new R80.10 Secondary SMS server
- Perform Synchronisation from Primary to Secondary server
Rollback
- Disconnect the new SMS and bring R77.30 SMS servers online and test SIC, logging and policy installation