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Community Announcements THWACK Tuesday Tip :: Best Practices for Orion Upgrades

THWACK Tuesday Tip :: Best Practices for Orion Upgrades

KMSigma.SWI over 3 years ago Less than one minute read time

FEATURED EPISODE:

Best Practices for Orion Upgrades

December 22, 2020

Upgrading your Orion Platform products may seem daunting, but there are just a few steps to follow. THWACK Technical Content Manager Kevin M. Sparenberg will review how to identify your current versions, decode version numbering, show you the easiest way to upgrade, and show you how to migrate your Orion Platform products to new hardware, if you prefer.

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jjhj 1 month ago

A very simple way to update infrastructure!!!
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landmarkpage over 2 years ago

I desire title is the most appealing phase of this unique put up. TellPopeyes
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simonp73 over 3 years ago

Is there any reason why the offline installer for 2020.2.1 HF2 are all ISOs rather than applications as per previous downloads/upgrades?
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pr261298 over 3 years ago

KMSigma.SWI
Thanks for your support.
I have referred multiple-module hardware-software path as you suggested and prepared below setup.
My Current setup for SQL: ( for 75000 Elements) - SQL 2014 SP2 - Virtual Machine
CPU(No. of) - 12 Core 2.10 GHz Intel XeonE5-2683 v4
RAM (GB) - 128
Hard drive - 2TB
NIC - 2
Planning for upgraded one: Software, i will go for SQL 2019 Enterprise version. - Virtual Machine
CPU(No. of) - 32 Core 2.4GHz (or) Faster
RAM (GB) - 256
Hard drive - 2TB + 1 (TB for NTA)
NIC - 2
Also i will refer the NTA link which shared by you.
Thanks a lot once again.
Regards
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KMSigma.SWI over 3 years ago

pr261298 Network Topology Mapper doesn't run on the Orion Platform, so an upgrade there is independent of the Orion upgrades.

Cohabitating your Orion and NetFlow database is 100% supported if your SQL server has enough resources and is running SQL Server 2016 SP1 or later.

You'd have to review the general sizing recommendations here.and more specific question for NTA sizing should go in the NTA forum.

In my lab, the SQL server is a single instance running 2016 SP1 with 256 GB of RAM and 32 logical cores on a physical server. It's running multiple Orion installs with NTA and Log Analyzer and runs fine.
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