Upgrade and Downgrade Considerations

The topics in this section provide information on validated upgrade paths, migration considerations, and compatible software versions.

Note

Note

If a 5420 Series or 5520 Series switch uses DHCP and you did not manually change the host name through the prompt or sys name command, applications that are hard-coded with the old host name can be impacted after upgrade from a VOSS release to Fabric Engine 8.6 or later. As a workaround, change the system name or prompt back to voss<mac-address>.

See the Fabric Engine User Guide for detailed image management procedures that includes information about the following specific upgrade considerations:

Upgrade switches using one of the options in the following sections: