The aim of this guide is to provide a step by step procedure to upgrade from RELIANOID ADC Load Balancer Community Edition from version v7 to version v9, maintaining all the configurations.

Pre-requisites #

1. Have version 7.x Community Edition appliance already installed.
2. Update to the latest v7 version.
3. Before applying this upgrade, a full backup is recommended.
4. Online and offline upgrade are available, please follow the steps below to proceed.

Online upgrade requirements #

The only requirement is to have Internet connectivity in the load balancer and accessibility to repo.relianoid.com via APT. Please consider that DNS are resolving and configure the navigation proxy for APT if required.

Upgrading Community #

1. Simply, execute the command:

root@noid-ce-01:~# noid-updater -U

A couple of dialogs will appear asking for the acceptance of some licenses, just press Yes.

2. Finally, reboot the system to start with the new load balancing experience!

root@noid-ce-01:~# reboot

Enjoy the Site Reliability Experience!