Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV)

Sangfor HCI and aSV provide a unified infrastructure combining compute, storage, networking, and built-in security to simplify deployment, operations, and services.
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Implementation Procedure

{{ $t('productDocDetail.updateTime') }}: 2025-12-29

1.1.6.1 Quick Upgrade

Type

Item

Estimated Time

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Complete

Preparing for

Upgrade

Check upgrade path

Obtain the latest aDeploy version

Prepare HCI update package

Check version information

Prepare license key

Read upgrade notes(in the release notes)

aSecurity

Upgrade

Upgrade aSecurity before upgrading ES/EDR MGR

About 30 minutes

aNI

Upgrade

Upgrade Network Insight (aNI) on HCI

About 30 minutes

HCI

Upgrade

Process

Make sure there are no ongoing tasks

5 minutes

General page check

10 minutes


Health check

10 minutes

Enable maintenance mode

1 minute

Environment check before upgrading HCI

5 minutes

Upload HCI update

package/Verify software edition

3 minutes

Distribute update package

Package size * Number of nodes/Transfer rate

Pre-upgrade check

15 minutes. The time varies according to virtual storage capacity. The larger the

storage capacity is, the

longer the upgrade process takes.

Control plane active upgrade

11 minutes

VM active upgrade

5 seconds for every 5 VMs with vmTools installed.

2 minutes for each VM

without vmTools installed.

Virtual storage active upgrade

Number of clustered nodes*10 minutes

Related to the

scale and load of VMs

Active upgrade for virtual network

5 minutes

Apply new virtual storage version

Number of clustered nodes*10 minutes

Post-upgrade Check business

30 minutes

License after upgrade

5 minutes

1.1.6.2 Rolling Upgrade

Type

Item

Estimated Time

Check with √

When

Complete


Preparing

for

Upgrade

Check upgrade path

Obtain the latest aDeploy version

Prepare HCI update package

Check version information

Prepare license key

Read upgrade notes(in the release notes)

aSecurity

Upgrade

Upgrade aSecurity before upgrading ES/EDR MGR

About 30 minutes

aNI

Upgrade

Upgrade Network Insight (aNI) on HCI

About 30 minutes

HCI

Upgrade

Process

Make sure there are no ongoing tasks

5 minutes

General page check

10 minutes

Health check

10 minutes

Environment check before upgrading HCI

5 minutes

Upload HCI update

package/Verify software edition

3 minutes

Distribute update package

Packet size/Transfer rate- Packet size*2/Transfer rate

Pre-upgrade check

15 minutes

The larger the virtual

storage

capacity is,

the longer the upgrade

process takes.

Enable Maintenance Mode for the cluster

1 minute

Control plane active upgrade

25 minutes

Disable Maintenance Mode for the cluster

1 minute

Live migration of VMs

across nodes in the same cluster

3 minutes for each VM

The migration time of each VM varies


according to the data

volume and I/O status

when the VM is running.

Enable Maintenance Mode for nodes

1 minute

Related to the cluster size

and workload.

Virtual storage active upgrade

10 minutes

Active upgrade for virtual network

5 minutes

Restart server manually

10 minutes

Disable Maintenance Mode for nodes

1 minute

Repeat the preceding

steps (starting from the live migration of VMs)

About 40 minutes for each node

Check business

30 minutes

License after upgrade

5 minutes

1.1.6.3 Offline Upgrade

Type

Item

Estimated Time

Check with √ When

Complete

Preparing for Upgrade

Check upgrade path

Obtain the latest aDeploy version

Prepare HCI update package

Check version information

Prepare license key

Read upgrade notes(in the release notes)

aSecurity

Upgrade

Upgrade aSecurity before upgrading ES/EDR MGR

About 30 minutes

aNI Upgrade

Upgrade Network Insight

About 30 minutes


(aNI) on HCI

HCI Upgrade Process

Make sure there are no ongoing tasks

2 minutes

General page check

10 minutes

Health check

5 minutes

Shut down all VMs

20-30 minutes

Shut down all NFV devices

10 minutes

Enable maintenance mode

1 minute

Check environment for upgrade

1 minute

Upload HCI update package

1 minute

Verify the update package via the QR code

1 minute

Distribute update package

Package size * Number of nodes/Transfer rate

Check environment

15 minutes

Perform offline upgrade

30 minutes

Power on VM

10 minutes

Check business

5 minutes

The larger the cluster is, the longer it takes to convert the configuration file and the longer the upgrade time.