I have not touched my set up in a long time (Almost 5 years) Thanks Gea!
I want to upgrade because I am not able to start the VMs automatically after server restart and hoping that new version of ESXi will have the capability. Also its a good practice to update to latest stable versions once in a while. (Or should I leave well enough alone?)
I am searching for other threads or tutorials on this, so if they are somewhere, please point me to those
server is Dell T20 with Xeon E3-1225v3 and 32GB of RAM
Esxi version is - 6.0.0 Build number: 3617585 version: 2016.03.02 Branch: vsphere60u2
napp-it version is ZFS appliance v. 17.06free Aug.14.2017 (Based on this version date, looks like I have updated napp-in-one once)
omniOS version is - v11 r151018
What is the right order of update?
esxi from 6.0.0 to 6.7u3 ? This should be a dell provided file? Need to find out how to upgrade this and if this upgrade will break anything. Should I upgrade to 7.0? That version for Dell also seems to be available.
Test that everything works
omnios from v11 r151018 to 151038r -> Need to figure out how to update, should be easy
Upgrading OmniOS - Does not list upgrades from 151018
And the note " Upgrading from versions not listed below has not been tested and is not supported. " So will need to figure out how to jump from r151018 to 151038
It seems I can go from
151018 to 151022 (Upgrading to r151022)
151022 to 151030 and then
151030 to 151038
Test everything works
napp-it from v. 17.06 to 18.01 free - This can be easily done from UI with about -> Update
Test everything works
What do I back up and how to be able to go back to prior good setup if something breaks in the upgrade?
Looking around it seems that one suggested way is, export napp it configuration (pool, users, what else?)
reinsall ESXi, and use latest napp-it template and import the configuration.
(https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/updating-omnios-r151014-to-latest.16084/)
I do have mysql installed and some databases there installed with the php mysql. So I will need to back those up and reinstall that stack.
I want to upgrade because I am not able to start the VMs automatically after server restart and hoping that new version of ESXi will have the capability. Also its a good practice to update to latest stable versions once in a while. (Or should I leave well enough alone?)
I am searching for other threads or tutorials on this, so if they are somewhere, please point me to those
server is Dell T20 with Xeon E3-1225v3 and 32GB of RAM
Esxi version is - 6.0.0 Build number: 3617585 version: 2016.03.02 Branch: vsphere60u2
napp-it version is ZFS appliance v. 17.06free Aug.14.2017 (Based on this version date, looks like I have updated napp-in-one once)
omniOS version is - v11 r151018
What is the right order of update?
esxi from 6.0.0 to 6.7u3 ? This should be a dell provided file? Need to find out how to upgrade this and if this upgrade will break anything. Should I upgrade to 7.0? That version for Dell also seems to be available.
Test that everything works
omnios from v11 r151018 to 151038r -> Need to figure out how to update, should be easy
Upgrading OmniOS - Does not list upgrades from 151018
And the note " Upgrading from versions not listed below has not been tested and is not supported. " So will need to figure out how to jump from r151018 to 151038
It seems I can go from
151018 to 151022 (Upgrading to r151022)
151022 to 151030 and then
151030 to 151038
Test everything works
napp-it from v. 17.06 to 18.01 free - This can be easily done from UI with about -> Update
Test everything works
What do I back up and how to be able to go back to prior good setup if something breaks in the upgrade?
Looking around it seems that one suggested way is, export napp it configuration (pool, users, what else?)
reinsall ESXi, and use latest napp-it template and import the configuration.
(https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/updating-omnios-r151014-to-latest.16084/)
I do have mysql installed and some databases there installed with the php mysql. So I will need to back those up and reinstall that stack.
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