Upgrading V-Series Appliances
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Upgrading V-Series Appliances
Estimates of time to complete upgrade
V-Series Appliance Upgrade Guide | Upgrades to v7.8.1
The table below provides estimates of the time needed for the 7.8.1 patch to be
installed on an appliance. The amount of time varies, as indicated. Not all V-Series
configurations are shown.
The following provides a basic sample scenario:
Approximate total upgrade time, beginning to end, for all upgrade tasks:
● 1 Dual mode V10000 G2 appliance
● 2 Windows R2 2008 servers: 1 for the TRITON console, 1 for Web and Email Log
Server
Approximately 5.5 to 6 hours
The download speed for the patch depends on your network environment and can vary
significantly.
Activity breakout:
● 90 seconds to download the pre-upgrade hotfix
● 10 minutes to apply the hotfix and restart the appliance. After the hotfix is applied,
you must manually restart it.
● 3.5 hours to download the version 7.8.1 appliance upgrade (patch) file (if the
download speed is 512 kilobytes per second)(the patch size is 6 gigabytes)
● 10 minutes to back up the V-Series appliance
● 50 minutes for the patch to perform the upgrade, which includes automatically
restarting the appliance twice
● 5 minutes to log onto the Appliance manager to verify that the upgrade was
successful
● 20 minutes to download the version 7.8.1 TRITON Unified Installer
System
Configuration
Elapsed time
V10000 G2/G3
Web security only:
Web Security Gateway
Full policy source
40-50 minutes
V10000 G2/G3
V5000 G2
Web security only:
Web Security Gateway
User directory and filtering
40-50 minutes
V10000 G2/G3
Dual mode:
Web Security Gateway and
Email Security Gateway
40-50 minutes
V10000 G2/G3
V5000 G2
Email security only
40-50 minutes
