Type

Item

Estimated Time

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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 to Security before upgrading 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

Check business

30 minutes

License after upgrade

5 minutes