Upgrade GigaVUE-FM

Starting with release 5.8.00, GigaVUE-FM introduces several significant changes, which include improvements in usability and performance. These changes include upgrading and replacing databases and changing the underlying operating system. So, you must migrate your existing configurations and data such as audit logs, events, syslogs, and statistics from your current GigaVUE-FM version (either 5.7 or lower) to GigaVUE-FM5.8.01. You cannot directly upgrade your GigaVUE-FM instance to release 5.8.01. You must first upgrade to GigaVUE-FM5.7.02.01, a special release that provides the tools to manage and perform the migration. You can then upgrade to GigaVUE-FM5.8.01. For instructions, refer to Migrate GigaVUE-FM .

This section describes how to upgrade GigaVUE-FM to the latest revision in either a VMware ESXi host or in Microsoft HyperV environment. Starting with release 3.1, Gigamon supports KVM environments. Previous versions of GigaVUE-FM have not been tested in the KVM environment.

Note:  To upgrade software on H Series or TA Series nodes, refer to the “Upgrading Software on a GigaVUE Node or a Cluster from GigaVUE-FM” section in the GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide.

Refer to the following sections for details:

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Upgrade an Existing GigaVUE-FM Deployment, which describes the overall upgrade path from an existing GigaVUE-FM deployment.

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How to Use the Snapshot Feature, which describes how to upgrade GigaVUE-FM 3.1 and above to the current version of GigaVUE-FM.