Cisco Cisco UCS Director 5.5 Installation Guide
ftp://username:password@hostname|IP_address/software_location_and_name
Step 7
Wait for the download and installation to complete.
Step 8
When prompted, choose Start services to start services and complete the upgrade process.
After you apply the upgrade patch and complete that installation, choose the Start Services option of ShellAdmin
to start/restart the Cisco UCS Director services and complete the patch process. The patch process is not complete
or successful until the Cisco UCS Director services have started, Cisco UCS Director is available, the login
screen is displayed, and the administration can log in to Cisco UCS Director.
to start/restart the Cisco UCS Director services and complete the patch process. The patch process is not complete
or successful until the Cisco UCS Director services have started, Cisco UCS Director is available, the login
screen is displayed, and the administration can log in to Cisco UCS Director.
All Cisco UCS Director services must be started before you attempt to perform other shelladmin procedures,
such as apply additional patches, take a database backup, or restore a database from a backup.
such as apply additional patches, take a database backup, or restore a database from a backup.
Note
Step 9
When the upgrade is complete, choose Show Version in ShellAdmin to verify the current version of Cisco UCS
Director.
Director.
Upgrading a Multi-Node Setup to Release 5.5
Perform these steps on the primary node and all service nodes. This procedure also upgrades the inventory
database or monitoring database nodes.
database or monitoring database nodes.
Follow this procedure to upgrade from Cisco UCS Director, Release 5.4. If you need to upgrade from an
earlier release, you must first upgrade to Release 5.4 and then upgrade to Release 5.5. For information on
upgrading to Release 5.4, see the Cisco UCS Director Upgrade Guide, Release 5.4 available at:
earlier release, you must first upgrade to Release 5.4 and then upgrade to Release 5.5. For information on
upgrading to Release 5.4, see the Cisco UCS Director Upgrade Guide, Release 5.4 available at:
Before You Begin
• Download the Cisco UCS Director, Release 5.5 patch from
• Place the software in the FTP or HTTP server that you plan to use to install the upgrade.
• If NFS mount is used for application storage, disable it before you apply a patch. If you do not, the
upgrade will fail.
We recommend that you take a snapshot of the VM before you begin the upgrade. If you do this, you do
not need to back up the existing configuration database through an FTP server.
not need to back up the existing configuration database through an FTP server.
Note
Step 1
Start the primary and service nodes for your current version of Cisco UCS Director (Release 5.4).
Step 2
In the ShellAdmin for the primary and all service nodes, choose Stop services to stop all services.
Step 3
To verify that all services are stopped, choose Display services status.
Step 4
(Optional) If desired, you can choose Backup database on the inventory database and monitoring database nodes
to back up the Cisco UCS Director database.
You do not need to back up the database if you took a snapshot of the VM before you started.
to back up the Cisco UCS Director database.
You do not need to back up the database if you took a snapshot of the VM before you started.
Cisco UCS Director Upgrade Guide, Release 5.5
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Overview of the Upgrade to Cisco UCS Director, Release 5.5
Upgrading a Multi-Node Setup to Release 5.5