topic Re: Is it possible to skip 8.0 and go straight to 8.1 in General Topics

Is it possible to skip 8.0 and go straight to 8.1

s996kingsm — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:17:38 GMT

Good morning everyone we are running 7.1.x right now and are wanting to move to 8.1.x. Does anyone know if it is possible to install 8.0 dont reboot then install 8.1.x then reboot or do you have to reboot after 8.0 and then reboot after 8.1.x install.

Re: Is it possible to skip 8.0 and go straight to 8.1

Raido_Rattameister — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:56:39 GMT

Best practice is discussed here:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/General-Topics/Upgrade-to-8-1-from-8-0-x/m-p/239632

Re: Is it possible to skip 8.0 and go straight to 8.1

LukeBullimore — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:10:52 GMT

Just a note to add to this: the recommendation to install and reboot after 8.0.0 is mainly present for the smaller firewall models, where you have to take into consideration their smaller disk sizes.

There is a bug mentioned in the "Upgrade/downgrade considerations" whereby rebooting a firewall on 8.0.0/8.1.0 stops third party transceivers from working. This is described as below.

The fix for this is in PAN-OS 8.0.1/8.0.1 so realistically I wouldn't recommend rebooting unless you are rebooting to this version (or higher) - the same with 8.1.

Thanks,

Luke.

Re: Is it possible to skip 8.0 and go straight to 8.1

s996kingsm — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:18:32 GMT

yeah thats why we are trying to go to one of the newer versions so we dont hit that bug with SFP's