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 aSecurity 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

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