Our live upgrade plan from 2016 Q4 CU6 to 2017 Q4 CU3
Originally posted on Nov 8, 2018 Here is a slightly redacted version of our live upgrade plan. I'm sharing this in case it is useful for others... I will also post a summary of our current configuration changes and tweaks in a separate blog post. Live Upgrade to from 9.1 Q4 2016 CU6 to 9.1 Q4 2017 CUx Overview We will upgrade Blackboard Live to 9.1 Q4 2017 CU3. Server Address Blackboard preproduction is made up of four applications nodes, a tasks node, an Oracle 12C database, and a NFS server. hostname_removed – tasks node hostname_removed – web node hostname_removed – web node hostname_removed – web node hostname_removed – web node hostname_removed – Oracle database hostname_removed – NFS server Note Where "on each node" is stated, this refers to each node on which the Blackboard application runs, i.e. the tasks node and the web nodes. Summary of stages Stage 1 covers work that can be carried out b...