Upgrading Cisco DCNM

This chapter provides information about upgrading Cisco DCNM, and contains the following section:

Upgrading to Cisco DCNM Release 11.5(4a)

The following table summarizes the type of upgrade that you must follow to upgrade to Release 11.5(4a).

Upgrading Cisco DCNM

Before Cisco DCNM Release 11.0(1), DCNM OVA, and ISO supported SAN functionality. From Cisco DCNM Release 11.3(1), you can install Cisco DCNM for SAN Deployment on both OVA and ISO virtual appliances.

The following table summarizes the type of upgrade that you must follow to upgrade to Release 11.4(1).

Table 1. Type of Upgrade for LAN Fabric, and IP for Media (IPFM) deployments

Current Release Number

Upgrade type to upgrade to Release 11.4(1)

11.3(1)

Inline Upgrade

11.2(1)

Inline Upgrade

11.1(1)

Inline Upgrade

11.0(1)

11.0(1) → 11.2(1) → 11.4(1)

11.0(1) → 11.1(1) → 11.4(1)

→ represents an Inline Upgrade
Table 2. Type of Upgrade for Cisco DCNM SAN deployments

Current Release Number

Upgrade type to upgrade to Release 11.4(1)

11.3(1)

To Windows—Inline Upgrade

To Linux—Inline Upgrade

To OVA\ISO—Inline Upgrade

11.2(1)

To Windows—Inline Upgrade

To Linux—Inline Upgrade

To OVA\ISO—

  1. Fresh 11.3(1) SAN Only Installation.

  2. Migrate Performance Manager Collections to 11.3(1)

    Note

     

    The old Performance Manager data will replace any existing Performance Manager data on 11.3(1).

  3. Inline upgrade to 11.4(1)

11.1(1)

To Windows—Inline Upgrade

To Linux—Inline Upgrade

To OVA\ISO—

  1. Fresh 11.3(1) SAN Only Installation.

  2. Migrate Performance Manager Collections to 11.3(1).

    Note

     

    The old Performance Manager data will replace any existing Performance Manager data on 11.3(1).

  3. Inline upgrade to 11.4(1)

10.4(2) OVA

10.4(1) OVA

To 11.3(1) OVA\ISO—

  1. Fresh 11.3(1) SAN Only Installation.

  2. Migrate Performance Manager Collections to 11.3(1).

    Note

     

    The old Performance Manager data will replace any existing Performance Manager data on 11.3(1).

  3. Inline upgrade to 11.4(1)