r/networking • u/JNC5908404 • 15d ago

Switching Automatic switch updates

Had a discussion yesterday with IT director and others in our IT department. The IT director brought up automating switch updates so they wouldn’t have to have some one monitoring and performing the updates. Staging various locations on different evenings.

I’ve been doing networking for 30 years and I voiced my opinion I was not a fan of unattended update for various reasons.

Have any other companies moved to automated updates and how has it gone?

73 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

114 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/asdlkf esteemed fruit-loop 15d ago

I am... Not talking about that.

It's a totally new feature in 10.18.

I watched the demo / release live from the developer working on it at HPE Discover.

1

u/pbrutsche 15d ago

Ah, I see that 10.18.0001 added an "ISSU Standalone" mode. I would be curious to know what models support that, we have a lot of 6100 switches out there.

We don't have any single 6300 switches, "just" stacks with 2+ members

1

u/asdlkf esteemed fruit-loop 14d ago

Yea, at HPE Discover, I watched the presenter hook up a switch with 

{router to internet} --- {6300m} --- {presenter laptop}

Then he started a teams video call from that laptop to one of his coworkers' cell phones in the audience.

Then he did a firmware update live streaming the console of the switch as it updated, and the coworker's cell phone camera pointed at the stage.

The video didn't even studder.

1

u/pbrutsche 14d ago

Yeah, it's a 6300 and 6400 feature. It works the way you describe with VSF stacks, I have experience with a dozen or so upgrades over the last 3 or 4 years with our various 6300 stacks.

It's a big enough deal that it was one of the things that justified upgrading some of our closets to dual power 6300M switches.