Upgrade 8 to 9 on HP DL360 G7

[stra4d]

Just an FYI. If anyone is contemplating or nervous about upgrading (in place 8 to 9) on their older HP DL360 G7 units, I have done 3 of them and they all seem to be running fine (ours have the RAID Smart Array P410i).

There was a warning from the pve8to9 script about intel-microcode, which I installed. Not sure if that was required or not but I did install. After the VMs were shut down there were zero warnings. Everything upgrade fine, back up and running no issues.

 

[jdancer]

Just did a clean install of my Supermicro home rack server from PVE8 to PVE9. Yeah, I wait until the last minute. No worries, I've been clean installing PVE9 at work on Dell servers since PVE9 came out.

Prefer clean installs. Got punked too many times with major operating system upgrades (doesn't matter whose OS) in the past, so I deal with doing backups and restores. At least I know what I am getting into instead of spending hours and days chasing obscure one-off edge cases (i.e., blacklisting mlx4_ib driver).