Hello Gavin, On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Gavin Ang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jonathan, > > Thanks for the quick reply! I would like to update our SmartOS versions > to the latest and greatest, but my sys admin guy is a bit more cautious > because we only have 1 PXE bootstrap machine that we use to boot up our > SmartOS hosts, and he is afraid that if we upgrade it will affect the other > production machines running SmartOS – we haven’t got to the point where we > have a dev environment for this yet. > > > > Can you or someone else advise what are the risks in upgrading to the > latest based on this scenario? Will there be any problem with the legacy > production machines that we can’t quite afford to take down and reboot at > this time. > > > > Rgds, > > Gavin > > > > Your PXE server should allow serving different configurations based on the mac address. To be clear, if you change the image served by your PXE server by default, the existing running hosts will only pickup the new image when they reboot. Thanks, Nigel ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
