5.1 Supported Upgrade Paths

Table 5-1 outlines the supported paths for upgrading to OES 11 SP3.

All OES releases can be upgraded by installing the interim support packs in order. For example, you can upgrade from OES 2 SP2 to OES 2 SP3, then from OES 2 SP3 to OES 11 SP3. Cross-architecture upgrades (32-bit to 64-bit and 64-bit to 32-bit) are not supported.

Table 5-1 Supported OES 11 SP3 Upgrade Paths

Source

Destination

Upgrade Methods Supported

OES 2 SP3 (64-bit)

OES 11 SP3 (64-bit)

  • Network-based media (offline)
  • Physical media (offline)

OES 11 SP1 (64-bit)

OES 11 SP3 (64-bit)

  • Network-based media (offline)
  • Physical media (offline)

OES 11 SP2 (64-bit)

OES 11 SP3 (64-bit)

  • Network-based media (offline)
  • Physical media (offline)
  • Channel or patch upgrade

IMPORTANT:Source servers must have all patches applied from the appropriate SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and OES patch update repositories prior to an upgrade.