{"id":205,"date":"2014-05-10T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gimpland.org\/now\/?p=205"},"modified":"2014-05-10T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T22:01:11","slug":"citrix-xenserver-upgrade-from-6-1-to-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gimpland.org\/now\/2014\/05\/citrix-xenserver-upgrade-from-6-1-to-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrix XenServer Upgrade From 6.1 to 6.2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend I’ve updated from 6.1 to 6.2. Here are the steps I took to do the upgrade.<\/p>\n

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  1. Make sure you have upgraded your licenses to 6.2\u00a0(May require login)<\/a>. \u00a0They have changed to a per socket structure, for us we have two sockets per server, and was able to upgrade without paying extra. \u00a0The upgrade will warning\u00a0you if you don’t have the 6.2 license, but you can continue on… just make sure you’ve got the new 6.2 license is applied to your license server.<\/li>\n
  2. Download the\u00a0XenServer-6.2.0-install-cd.iso<\/a> file (May require login)<\/li>\n
  3. I uploaded the file to a physical linux web server not part of my Xen pool<\/li>\n
  4. Create a directory called ‘xen’ in the root of your web site<\/li>\n
  5. Mount the ISO as a loop device:\n
    sudo mount -o loop\u00a0XenServer-6.2.0-install-cd.iso xen\/<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  6. Update XenCenter.msi<\/a>\u00a0to the latest version.\u00a0After updating XenCenter, “About XenCenter” shows my version as “6.2 (build 1377)”<\/li>\n
  7. Backup your XenServer Pool, ssh into your pool master and run this command. \u00a0Copy into your backups on a file server\n
    xe pool-dump-database file-name=xenpool.backup.20140510<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  8. Disable HA<\/li>\n
  9. Shutdown any unneeded VMs, this will decrease the time it takes to preform the upgrade<\/li>\n
  10. To preform the upgrade, in XenCenter goto Tools -> Rolling Pool Upgrade<\/li>\n
  11. Select your pool<\/li>\n
  12. Select\u00a0‘Automatic Mode’<\/li>\n
  13. Obey the rules of the pre-check<\/li>\n
  14. Run the upgrade. \u00a0I had a few issues and had to restart the rolling upgrade, which didn’t seem like an issue. \u00a0My issues were mostly VMs loosing\u00a0their VDIs, which can be fixed via this article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    This weekend I’ve updated from 6.1 to 6.2. Here are the steps I took to do the upgrade. Make sure you have upgraded your licenses to 6.2\u00a0(May require login). \u00a0They have changed to a per socket structure, for us we have two sockets per server, and was able to upgrade without paying extra. \u00a0The upgrade … Continue reading “Citrix XenServer Upgrade From 6.1 to 6.2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[59,117,15,17,19,120,2,119,121,118,40,18,58,16,57],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization","tag-6-1","tag-6-2","tag-citrix","tag-cli","tag-howto","tag-license","tag-linux","tag-rolling","tag-update","tag-upgrade","tag-vdi","tag-virtualization-2","tag-xencenter","tag-xenserver","tag-xentools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nCitrix XenServer Upgrade From 6.1 to 6.2 - gimpland.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gimpland.org\/now\/2014\/05\/citrix-xenserver-upgrade-from-6-1-to-6-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Citrix XenServer Upgrade From 6.1 to 6.2 - gimpland.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This weekend I’ve updated from 6.1 to 6.2. 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