Upgrading Resiliency Platform in AWS environment
The upgrade process is divided into 3 major parts for all the virtual appliances in which the Attach / Detach data disk is the second step. You need to perform below steps to detach the data disk from previous version virtual appliance and attach it to the version current virtual appliance.
Detach / attach data disk
- Login to AWS portal along with the admin user credentials.
- Navigate to EC2 service and click Network Interfaces on the left pane, search for the desired IP address. Provide the name to the NIC and make note of the private IP addresses of the appliance.
- To preserve the NICs of the corresponding IP addresses, navigate to:
a. Actions drop down.
b. Select the Change Termination Behavior option.
c. Uncheck the Delete on termination checkbox and click Save.
- Make sure you add port 7000 for Resiliency Manager in existing Security Group.
- Navigate to the Instances on the left pane. To create an AMI image of the instance i.e backup of the existing version image, navigate to Actions > Image > Create Image.
Provide the following details on the Create Image wizard and click on the Create Image.
Enter Image name:
Enter Image description:
We need to perform this step to roll back the version AMI image if something goes wrong during the upgrade process. For rollback operation, refer the topic See Rollback steps in AWS environment. .Wait for the Image creation to complete before going to the next page.
- Detach all data disks from the previous version appliance and recommended to tag them with a proper name.
- Delete the older (previous) version virtual appliance to reuse the private IP addresses while configuring the new appliances. Perform the following steps:
a. Right-click on older version virtual appliance, select the Instance State > Terminate.
b. Click on Yes, Terminate on the Terminate Instances wizard.
- Go to the AWS Marketplace and locate Veritas Resiliency Platform product.
Choose the option of Upgrade to upgrade the appropriate virtual appliance.
- Provide the required inputs:
Instance Name: Provide appropriate name for the new version instance.
EC2 Instance Type: Select the appropriate instance type to be used.
Key Pair for SSH access: Select the appropriate key pair for the EC2 instance.
Data Volumes from Previous Version: Select all data volumes that were detached from previous version virtual appliance from the drop down list.
Under Network Configuration provide the below details:
VPC ID: Provide the VPC id of the previous version virtual appliance.
Network interface to attach as eth0: Enter NIC ids that were noted from previous virtual appliance.
Network interface to attach as eth1: Enter NIC ids that were noted from previous virtual appliance.
- The new version virtual appliance is deployed. Using SSH, continue to complete the upgrade steps.
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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Previous Step: Step 1: Prepare for upgrade
Next Step: Step 3: Start the automatic bootstrap process
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