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DO NOT UPGRADE FOR VIOS 3.1 FROM 2.2 BEFORE READ THIS

Right, if you read my last post about how to overcome a problem with VIOs upgrade I have bad news for you. Like I showed in the last post, the update will fail because the fileset bos.alt_disk_install.boot_images, the fileset installed in your VIOs SHOULD be a version older than the on the VIOs 3.1 mksysb image, if you try run VIOs upgrade, the upgrade will fail. I faced this situation: Installed VIOs - 2.2.6.41, released on May/2019 The mksysb image that I extracted from the VIOs 3.1 dvd was from 2018. Upgraded failed, because as you can see the fileset on the VIOs 3.1 dvd was oldest than the current VIOs version. To overcome this I was obligated get a more recent VIOs 3.1 iso to create the mksysb, the most recent version now was from November/2019, so the fileset on the DVD iso was more recent than the installed on the VIOs. With that the installation performed fine as expected. But if you have a much more recent VIOs and is not able to get a VIOs 3.1 iso more recent than your curren...

viosupgrade FAILED

Tried restore the mksysb for upgrade vios from 2.6 to 3.1 and got the error below: # /usr/ios/cli/ioscli viosupgrade -l -i vios31_mksysb -a hdisk3 Welcome to viosupgrade tool. Operation triggered for given node(s). [?5h[?5lBroadcast message from root@vios3 (pts/1) at 08:14:43 ... WARNING!!! VIOS Upgrade operation is in progress. Kindly Refrain from making any configuration changes... Please wait for completion.. Upgrading from ioslevel '2.2.6.61' to '3.1.0.00'. The provided disk 'hdisk3' is in use. # /usr/ios/cli/ioscli viosupgrade -l -q Welcome to viosupgrade tool. Getting status of node(s): viosupgrade FAILED Please see the vioupgrade status: ==================================== Wed Jun 24 08:14:43 2020|STARTED Wed Jun 24 08:15:26 2020|FAILED Please see the viosbr restore status: ==================================== # /usr/ios/cli/ioscli viosupgrade -l -q Welcome to viosupgrade tool. Getting status of node(s): viosupgrade FAILED Please see the vioupgrade sta...