Rubrik – Upgrade Process Quick Notes

Quick notes on how to upgrade Rubrik CDM and Rubrik Edge Devices

Upgrade Rubrik CDM

Download the ZIP file containing the compressed upgrade archive and the matching signature file from the Rubrik customer portal
Unzip the downloaded ZIP file
Open WINSCP session to a Rubrik node
- Log in with user “adminstaging” (same password as the admin GUI password)
- Transfer (SFTP) the upgrade file and the signature file to the node.
Close WINSCP session
Pause protection
- Log in to the Rubrik CDM web UI.
- Click the gear icon on the top bar of the web UI.
- The gear menu appears.
- Click Pause Protection.
- A confirmation dialog box appears.
- Click Continue
Open putty session as admin user and execute the below commands
- cluster upgrade status
- cluster upgrade start –mode prechecks_only
- cluster upgrade status watch
- cluster upgrade start
- cluster upgrade status watch
Resume protection
- Log in to the Rubrik CDM web UI.
- Click the gear icon on the top bar of the web UI.
- The gear menu appears.
- Click Resume Protection.
- A confirmation dialog box appears.
- Click Resume.

Upgrade Rubrik Edge Device

Check if data disk is minimum 128 GB, if not resize HDD to 128 GB
- shut down machine in hypervisor
- resize disk to 128 GB
- startup
Download the ZIP file containing the compressed upgrade archive and the matching signature file from the Rubrik customer portal
Unzip the downloaded ZIP file
Open WINSCP session to the Rubrik device
- Log in with user “adminstaging” (same password as te admin GUI password)
- Transfer (SFTP) the upgrade file and the signature file to the node.
Close WINSCP session
Open putty session as admin user and execute the below commands
- cluster upgrade status
- cluster upgrade start –mode prechecks_only
- cluster upgrade start
- cluster upgrade status watch