Upgrading Resiliency Platform in Hyper-V environment
The upgrade process is divided into 3 major parts for all the virtual appliances in which the Create new virtual appliance and attach the data disk is the second step. You need to perform below steps to create a new appliance and attach the previous version virtual appliance data disk to the current version virtual appliance in the Hyper-V server:
Create new virtual appliance and attach the existing data disk
- Ensure that the prepare for upgrade is performed on the virtual appliance. Refer Step 1: Prepare for upgrade
- Login to Hyper-V Manager client using admin user credentials.
- To deploy the current version virtual appliance, perform the following steps:
a. Right-click on the virtual machine and select New > Virtual Machine. This opens up the New Virtual Machine Wizard.
b. Provide the name and location for the virtual machine on the New Virtual Machine Wizard and click Next.
c. Select the Generation 1 and click Next.
d. Provide Startup memory in digits based on the system requirement of the Resiliency Platform, refer See System resource requirements for Resiliency Platform. and click Next.
e. Provide Configure Networking as Production-Switch and click Next.
f. In Connect Virtual Hard Disk wizard, select Use an existing virtual hard disk option and browse to the location where you have saved the previous version hard disk and select Hard Disk 1. Click Finish.
- Right click on the previous version virtual appliance and select Settings >> IDE Controller >> Hard Disk. On the Virtual hard disk section, select the Browse to locate the existing data disk.
You need to copy the previous version data disk to the current version virtual appliance and note the new path of the data disk,
- a. Go to the Settings of the current or new version virtual appliance, select IDE Controller 0, select Hard Drive and click Add.
b. Browse the copied data disk location noted in Step 4.
- Click Apply after is it enabled and click OK.
- Start the virtual appliance by right clicking on the appliance and click Start option.
Note:
Attaching the data disk from one virtual appliance to another is supported only during the upgrade process, i.e. after preparing the virtual appliance for upgrade step (Step 1: Prepare for upgrade). If the data disk of an appliance is changed during normal functioning, it may impact the DR operations.
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