Hypervisor 7.5 pool rebuild to Hypervisor 8.2 CU1

[david brown1709155931]

Good morning all

I have a pool of 12 hosts running legacy 7.5. The task is to rebuild all of them to Hypervisor 8.2 CU1.  Is this possible by removing individual hosts from the pool and installing 8.2 cu1 then adding back to the pool, repeating the process for all hosts ?

was wondering if there would be any unforeseen issues i might come across by doing this. or would it be best to create a new pool once the first host had been rebuilt ?. An additional concern is that the pool is using local storage on all the hosts and the disk size is 70 gb !

any advice appreciated

dave

[Santosh SVR]

Hello David,

Thank you for writing to us,

Reinstalling servers will erase all data (VMs) on local storage by default. Back up your data before proceeding. (This warns about potential data loss)

Please backup complete data and rebuild the pool in Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1.

Thanks,
Santosh

[david brown1709155931]

Thanks Santosh

should i create a new pool with the 8.2 hosts or remove and add back to the existing pool ?

Are  their any implications in renaming a pool ir is it just a namespace ?

dave

[Santosh SVR]

Hello Dave,

Please create a new pool with CH 8.2 CU1 hosts after proper back up of the data from old (7.5) pool.

We can rename the pool,

https://docs.xenserver.com/en-us/xencenter/current-release/pools-properties.html#:~:text=On the General Properties tab,text in the Description box.

Thanks,
Santosh