[c-nsp] Nexus 7k Upgrade Path

[Michael Lee]

Make sure use short lacp timeout, no spanning-tree change during the upgrade

Also boot disk array status

Mike

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> On Feb 23, 2018, at 4:16 PM, Hunter Fuller <hf0002 at uah.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 8:06 AM Justin M. Streiner <streiner at cluebyfour.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Vendors also sometimes conflate "ISSU" and "hitless", or their
>> documentation doesn't always make it clear that an ISSU carries the
>> potential of outages.
> 
> 
> For what it is worth - there is a NX-OS command for checking whether an
> ISSU will be hitless: "show install all impact ?" will show you what you
> need to know.
> 
> We don't run much Nexus stuff, but we did upgrade our Nexus 7010 from
> version 4.something all the way to 7.2 with only ISSU. We had to do some
> careful planning, and some ISSU did fail, but the failure and rollback was
> just as hitless as the successes, and it told us what needed to be
> corrected for the future.
> 
> So far so good, with this strategy. I am very surprised to hear people
> talking about their problems with the ISSU process. I could not be happier
> with it.
> 
> # show system uptime
> System start time:          Sat Dec 20 17:54:34 2014
> System uptime:              1161 days, 4 hours, 36 minutes, 22 seconds
> 
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