Dataplane Upgrade Example
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Dataplane Upgrade Example
See some examples of how Prisma Access upgrades your
dataplane.
The following example shows a sample dataplane upgrade
procedure for a Mobile Users deployment with five locations (MU-SPNs)
and three SC-CANs. The US West location has two MU-SPNs as the result
of an autoscale event (an extra MU-SPN was added after a large number
of mobile users logged in to that location).
In this example, you selected a single location (US West) to
upgrade first, and requested a four-hour upgrade window of 8:00
a.m. to 12:00 noon Saturday for the upgrade.
On the first upgrade weekend (Phase #1), the dataplane upgrade
for one of the MU-SPNs and the primary node of the SC-CAN in the
US West location takes place between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Pacific
Time on Saturday.
To determine the MU-SPN that was upgraded, contact your
authorized Palo Alto Networks representative or partner.
Seven days after the first location is upgraded, Palo Alto Networks
upgrades the remaining components (Phase #2), including all the
MU-SPNs and SC-CANs in the deployment, using the same four-hour
time window as was used for the first phase of the upgrade (8:00
a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Saturday).
In this example, Prisma Access uses the following time zone information
when upgrading the dataplane:
- The remaining MU-SPN (MU-SPN 2) in the US West location is upgraded.
- The Japan Central MU-SPN and SC-CAN are upgraded using the local time in Japan.
- The UK MU-SPN and SC-CAN are upgraded using the local time in the UK.
- The US Southwest MU-SPN is upgraded using Pacific Time.
