ACS versions and clustering

[Michael Medwid]

If you have a 3 member ACS cluster all with 5.4 ACS code and you want to add two new secondary members of the cluster which came installed with 5.8 code - what are the best options for proceeding? Can you add the 5.8 ACS members as secondaries despite the revision spread and then promote one to Primary? Or should you focus on upgrading all current members of the cluster to 5.6 and then to 5.8 and *then* adding the new members to the cluster? Or would it be safest to just downgrade the new ACS servers to 5.4 and deal with the cluster upgrade later?

[nspasov]

If you are not able to upgrade now then I would suggest you re-image the new servers to match your existing version (5.4) and then join them to the deployment. Then you can upgrade the deployment at a later date to 5.8 or later.

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[Michael Medwid]

That makes sense. So just perform a fresh install of ACS 5.4 FCS Official Version  ACS_v5.4.0.46.0a.iso and then add the cumulative patches?

[nspasov]

Yep, you got it boss :)

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