[c-nsp] ASR1006 Upgrade

[Jordi Magrané Roig]

Dear colleagues,

Tonight I upgraded the device with success. I put the new IOS in the bootflash and reloaded the device.

Thank you very much to all of you for your comments.

Best regards,
Jordi.

> From: chuckchurch at gmail.com
> To: mark.tinka at seacom.mu; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> CC: jordimagrane at hotmail.com
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] ASR1006 Upgrade
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:23:36 -0500
> 
> Well, yeah.  If you've got the budget to keep an $80,000+ router laying
> around doing nothing most of the time, a lab is the best place to get
> proficient at this.  Not all ISP would have this luxury.  The small one I
> support occasionally certainly doesn't.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Tinka [mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:32 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Cc: Chuck Church; 'Jordi Magrané Roig'
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR1006 Upgrade
> 
> On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 02:06:28 PM Chuck Church
> wrote:
> 
> > It depends on how long your maintenance window is. 
> > Reloading the whole chassis is vastly easier, but you'll be down about 
> > 5 minutes I'm guessing. ISSU is much less.
> 
> It's not uncommon to inflate a maintenance window to account for some
> unforeseen eventuality.
> 
> >  Also, if you've never done ISSU, and you've got a maintenance window 
> > with a lot of time, this might be the time to try the ISSU just to see 
> > how it's done, and what to look out for.  There are lots of tricks and 
> > gotchas.
> > Easier to learn something when you're not under pressure to have 
> > something fixed with minimal downtime.
> 
> Ummh - lab?
> 
> Mark.
>