ISSU upgrade

Introduction

ISSU (In service software upgrade) is supported on specific chassis types. See “ISSU upgrade procedure” in the SR OS Software Release Notes for the specific release you are upgrading to.

Multi-phase ISSU upgrade

Fill out the upgrade operation options. Set the ISSU to “True”. If the ISSU is not supported for the node, the Pre-check will fail.

Figure 8-1: Upgrade operation options
Figure 8-2: Successful ISSU upgrade:
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Example IXR node show card command during ISSU upgrade:

Before reboot:

A:live-144# show card 
 =============================================================================== 
Card Summary 
=============================================================================== 
Slot      Provisioned Type                         Admin Operational   Comments 
              Equipped Type (if different)         State State 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
1         iom-ixr-r6                               up    up 
2         iom-ixr-r6                               up    up 
A         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    up/active 
B         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    up/standby 
=============================================================================== 

Reboot phase:

A:live-144# show card 
 
=============================================================================== 
Card Summary 
=============================================================================== 
Slot      Provisioned Type                         Admin Operational   Comments 
              Equipped Type (if different)         State State 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
1         iom-ixr-r6                               up    up 
2         iom-ixr-r6                               up    provisioned 
              (not equipped) 
A         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    up/active 
B         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    down/standby 
              (not equipped) 
=============================================================================== 
 
 
 
A:live-144# show card 
 
=============================================================================== 
Card Summary 
=============================================================================== 
Slot      Provisioned Type                         Admin Operational   Comments 
              Equipped Type (if different)         State State 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
1         iom-ixr-r6                               up    up 
2         iom-ixr-r6                               up    booting 
A         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    up/active 
B         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    ISSU/standby 
=============================================================================== 
A:live-144# 
 
B:live-144# show card 
 
=============================================================================== 
Card Summary 
=============================================================================== 
Slot      Provisioned Type                         Admin Operational   Comments 
              Equipped Type (if different)         State State 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
1         iom-ixr-r6                               up    provisioned 
              (not equipped) 
2         iom-ixr-r6                               up    up 
A         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    down/standby 
              (not equipped) 
B         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    up/active 
=============================================================================== 
B:live-144# 
 
 
B:live-144# show card 
 
=============================================================================== 
Card Summary 
=============================================================================== 
Slot      Provisioned Type                         Admin Operational   Comments 
              Equipped Type (if different)         State State 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
1         iom-ixr-r6                               up    up 
2         iom-ixr-r6                               up    up 
A         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    up/standby 
B         cpiom-ixr-r6                             up    up/active 
=============================================================================== 
Single phase ISSU upgrade

To complete an ISSU upgrade, users need to set the ISSU to “True” and Reboot to “False”. Both cannot be set to “True” at the same time. The Pre-check will fail if both are set to “True”.

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Figure 8-3: Successful single phase ISSU upgrade: