[c-nsp] Cisco ASR99xx 64-bit upgrade 6.3.1 to 6.3.2

Fri Apr 13 12:48:19 EDT 2018

I opened a TAC Case on this: TAC Responded.... We have asked the BU to tell us how to do this. So no I am waiting for a Conference call with the BU.

So in the mean time I tried what James said.... I do have my reservations about golden disk. In my opinion golden disk is usefully for deploying a new router not upgrading a working router, due to the fact you have to generate a new ISO for each router. I was able to do this and have the package added to the repository.

When I try to add one or more packages to the repo I get the file is corrupt, even though the file check sum matches...

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:CR1.LAB1#sh install log 58
Fri Apr 13 09:41:48.156 UTC
Apr 12 12:21:52 Install operation 58 started by esundberg:
 install add source harddisk:/downloads/6.3.2 asr9k-ospf-x64-1.0.0.0-r632.x86_64.rpm
Apr 12 12:21:53 Action 1: install add action started
Apr 12 12:21:54 Install operation will continue in the background
Apr 12 12:21:55 ERROR! Package "asr9k-ospf-x64-1.0.0.0-r632.x86_64.rpm" is invalid: asr9k-ospf-x64-1.0.0.0-r632.x86_64.rpm is corrupt
Apr 12 12:21:55 ERROR!! failed while handling validate reply

Apr 12 12:21:57 Install operation 58 aborted
Apr 12 12:21:57 Ending operation 58

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:CR1.LAB1#

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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of adamv0025 at netconsultings.com
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 9:36 AM
To: 'Tom Hill' <tom at ninjabadger.net>; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco ASR99xx 64-bit upgrade 6.3.1 to 6.3.2

> Tom Hill
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 1:46 PM
>
> On 12/04/18 18:06, Gert Doering wrote:
> > yum update
> >
> > ... now *that* would be nice...
>
> I thought you could do that...
>
>  https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/global/DK/seminarer/pdfs/XR60.pdf
>  (pgs. 30 & 31)
>
Page 26 of the same doc:
IOS XR  packages  are  installed  with  "install  update/upgrade".
Install  commands  are  a  wrapper  around  YUM  to  provide  multiarch support.
-so there's your yum update

But from the initial discussions on this from a few years back I thought I'd be able to spin up container on new version and then just switch to new one in an instance, or failback quickly if needed, preferably 0 packet loss in the process (maybe I'm mistaken ncs6k with asr9k).
Makes me wonder what's going on under the hood on asr9ks ncs5ks actually -i.e. how does the picture look like at each LC (I guess we'll need to wait till this "modular" architecture arrives to LCs as well?) In this sense, to me the router chassis is like a small DC with compute nodes (in form of RPs and LCs) all connected via Ethernet network -it would be nice to have control over which containers and what versions run on each compute node.
And regarding the 0 packet loss,
I'm wondering whether the NPU microcode version is independent of the (I guess Admin Plane) version (or whether it's still monolithic)

Also wondering when we'll be able to take RPs out of the chassis that is spin up the Control container(s) (and third party containers) on COTS HW and let these talk to LCs.
As unfortunately these chassis-based systems can become full with just couple of LCs in them just because the RP can't cope with the high number of VRFs, prefixes and BGP sessions.

adam

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