Air-gapped XOA Upgrade Process May Need Some Tweaking
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Good-day Folks,
Happy Friday; I trust we're all in good health!
BLUF: I believe the current XOA upgrade option for those of us whose environments fall under the
Physical air gap onlysection of the Airgap support and deployment documentation, leaves us with a new appliance and no way to preserve the historical logs and/or artifacts of the existing AND approved XOA instance.In my environment, all hardware changes (i.e., new additions, modifications, removal, etc.) MUST go through a formal approval process - which almost always includes going through a Change Control Board (CCB) - yes, this includes any updates/upgrades to virtual machines. This process can often times take several days to weeks to complete. With the only upgrade option available, at this time, the imported VM is essentially a "new" virtual machine, thus, triggers the aforementioned CCB approval process. Additionally, I observed yesterday - after receiving an updated XOA image from support and importing it using the deploy script you provide - that although I was able to very easily export the XO-Config from the existing appliance and import it into the new appliance and essentially get back to the same configuration state (exception being some plugins had to be re-enabled), I was missing historical artifacts - most notably was the logs of the XOA appliance.
Given the above explanation, is there any chance that Vates will consider providing a patching mechanism similar to how you handle XCP--ng (i.e., with an offline repo)? This way, we can download the relevant files, setup a repo on the air-gapped network, then patch the appliance - thus preserving it's historical artifacts AND identity, and most importantly, not triggering an approval process.
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Hi,
Sure, we have plans to get offline patches ready, it's in our roadmap already. Pinging @julien-f so we are sure it could be prepared in the next months.
It would be even better to make a support ticket because it will raise the priority
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@olivierlambert Thanks for the response, that's good to know that you guys have this on the roadmap. I didn't raise a support ticket because I'm not a paying customer yet, so don't want to come off as exploiting resources that could be dedicated to your paying customers.
That said, I will send this in via a support ticket. Thanks again.
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Without being a customer, you won't have access to the offline/airgap updates anyway. Anyway, this will come sooner than later, stay tuned!
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@olivierlambert Aah, you got me there. Thanks for all the support thus far, really appreciate it.
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