TPVM Complete Package Upgrade

You can perform a complete package upgrade of TPVM.

You can upgrade a device‘s TPVM image when a TPVM is installed and running an XCO instance which is managing the device. After the TPVM image update, an XCO instance gets reinstalled with the same XCO version as before and rejoins with the active XCO instance.

Note

An upgrade from TPVM 4.5.x to TPVM 4.6.0 is a complete package upgrade.
Change the TPVM password after you upgrade the SLX-OS version. This is due to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS having a restriction with supporting certain special ASCII characters. These special characters are required in storing TPVM password on SLX-OS.
- Note that if you change the TPVM password through SLX-OS, XCO will be down.
  If you do not want XCO to be down, follow the procedure described in the Change TPVM Password from XCO
- For more details on changing TPVM password, see "Procedure to change TPVM Password" in the Extreme TPVM 4.6.0 Release Notes.
- For minimum supported SLX-OS version for TPVM deployment model, see Supported Platforms and Deployment Models for Fabric Skill.
TPVM Incremental upgrade is not supported.

For more information about commands and supported parameters, see ExtremeCloud Orchestrator Command Reference, 3.3.0

Assumptions and Limitations

XCO supports SLX-OS 20.3.2a and later. The TPVM upgrade has SLX-OS dependencies for the new SLX commands: tpvm upgrade and tpvm revert. The TPVM configurations has already been present in the SLX running-config.
XCO does not support TPVM upgrade on a single-node TPVM deployment.
You can deploy a TPVM on multiple high-availability (HA) nodes, but you can upgrade a TPVM only on the standby TPVM node.
TPVM upgrade is allowed only on the XCO HA nodes that are managing the devices and hosting the XCO HA instances.
The XCO version is reinstalled and remains the same after the TPVM upgrade. You must not perform an XCO version upgrade during a TPVM upgrade. Ensure that you perform the XCO version upgrade before or after the TPVM upgrade is completed on both the HA nodes.
You can upgrade only one device‘s TPVM at a time.
User is required to change the TPVM password after upgrading to SLX-OS 20.5.1a. This is due to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS having a restriction with supporting certain special ASCII characters. These special characters are required in storing TPVM password on SLX-OS.