Any recommendation on upgrading to FSE SP1 on CCR?
Hi,
Does anyone know if there are any special consideration when upgrading a CCR to FSE SP1?
If not I assume that you will get minimal downtime by first upgrading the passive node, move the cluster, and finally upgrade the second node.
Regards
Jan
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The recommended steps for upgrading a cluster are as follows:
1. Upgrade all passive nodes. If prompted to restart the server, do so.
2. For each active node, failover the CMS to a passive node that has already been upgraded,
3. Upgrade the new passive node (the one that has just been failed over). If prompted to restart the server, do so.
Hm... All passive nodes? There is only one passive node in CCR since it supports two nodes in total!
Anyway, I was doubting this info, but it seems to be ok since I finally found TechNet article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892170.aspx
Upgrading FSETo upgrade FSE in a cluster environment, you must do a “rolling upgrade” with the Setup.exe program.
To do a rolling upgrade-
Upgrade all passive nodes. If prompted to restart the server, do so.
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For each active node, failover the CMS to a passive node that has already been upgraded,
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Upgrade the new passive node (the one that has just been failed over). If prompted to restart the server, do so.
Note: When upgrading an SCC cluster from FSE RTM to FSE SP1, after all nodes have been upgraded, run FSCUtility on all active nodes to add the FSEClusRes resource to the CMS and configure it. FSEClusRes is a Forefront cluster resource DLL that is loaded and run inside the Resource Monitor service (a Windows cluster service). Its sole purpose is to prevent more than one Clustered Mailbox Server (CMS) from coming online on one cluster node (either because of manual administrative action or a failover), so as not to corrupt FSE’s replicated registry settings. It is only installed on a SCC cluster. The syntax is:
FSCUtility /enable-
- When upgrading FSE SP1 to FSE SP2 you must upgrade the ACTIVE node first, then the passive. fyi...
Why the active first in the scenario FSE SP1 to SP2? In the TechNet there is only this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892170.aspx
It says passive nodes first...have you a link to other informations?- Bruno, I just did this and the UI told me I had to do the passive node after the active node.
- hi,
first upgrade the passive node . make sure when upgrading the passive node that it detects in the installation is on cluster.
then install FCS on the active node.
you can find in the services FCS cluster service is running on the active node.
