Introduction
In vNext we have gotten a long awaited & very welcome new capability: rolling cluster upgrades. Which for the Hyper-V roles is a 100% zero down time experience. The only step that will require some down time is the upgrade of the virtual machine configuration files to vNext (version 5 to 6) as the VM has to be shut down for this.
How to
The process for a rolling upgrade is so straight forward I’ll just give you a quick bullet list of the first part of the process:
- Evacuate the workload from the cluster node you’re going to upgrade
- Evict the node to upgrade to vNext from the cluster
- Upgrade (no in place upgrade supported but in your lab you can get away with it)
- Add the upgraded node to the cluster
- Rinse & repeat until all nodes have been upgraded (that can take a while with larger…
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