Upgrading a Netscaler 7000 device from v7.0 to v9.1 build 101.5

Posted on April 9th, 2010

I used this process to update a Netscaler 7000 device from v7.0 to v9.1 build 101.5

• Download Firmware from Citrix.com
• Download Firmware documentation from Citrix.com
• Use WinSCP or similar to connect to the Netscaler and create the following folders:
  • /var/nsinstall/nsinstall91/build1015/
• Copy the two downloaded updates into this folder
• Using puTTy or similar, connect to the Netscaler
• Uncompress the updates
  • shell
  • cd ..
  • cd var
  • cd nsinstall
  • cd nsinstall91
  • cd build1015
  • tar –zxvf build_9.1-101.5_cl.tgz
  • tar -zxvf ns-9.1-101.5-doc.tgz
• Run the update
  • ./installns
  • Reboot: Y

I updated a High Availability pair and did the secondary device first. Once the reboot was finished, I forced a failover to test the update and then repeated the same process on the other device.

Tags: 101.5, 7.0, Citrix Netscaler, firmware, installns, nsinstall, tar, update, upgrade
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