PA-460 Upgrading from 10.2.3-h9 to 11.2.0

[R.Tudon]

Hi Guys!

I was in my way to upgrade my PA-460 from the version 10.2.3-h9 to 11.2.0, i tried to use the Validate button, to take a look at the upgrade path, but i can't see any result, but i still have my doubts, 

I saw that in the Documentation says that if you have 10.2.x you can jump into the 11.0 direct (Determine the Upgrade Path to PAN-OS 11.0 (paloaltonetworks.com)), but, i don't if some can walk me thru this! 

Thank you.

[Brandon_Wertz]

I'm not sure if you can go straight from 10.2.X to 11.2.X, that said with 11.2.0 being newly released is there a particular reason why you're going to 11.2.0?  The code is probably no where near ready for a production deployment.

[R.Tudon]

Just wanted to have the device Up to date, but any version recommendations? i just want to move to a 11.X.X version.

Sorry to bother!

[JayGolf · Accepted solution]

Hi @R.Tudon ,

Coming from 10.2.x to target version 11.2.0:

1. Download and install the latest preferred maintenance release 10.2.8-h3 and reboot.

2. Download 11.0.0.

3. Download and install the latest preferred maintenance release 11.0.3-h10 and reboot.

4. Download 11.1.0.

5. Download and install the latest preferred maintenance release 11.1.2-h3 and reboot.

6. Proceed to upgrade to 11.2.

Hope this helps! Whenever you need to refer to the latest preferred maintenance release, please check out the recommended release guidance

[Qui]

Hi JayGolf,

I plan to upgrade our  FW from current preferred 10.2.8-h3 to 11.1.2-h3

My plan is download these 11.0.0, 11.1.0 and 11.1.2-h3.

Install 11.0.0 which is the base , then reboot.

then install 11.1.2-h3 and reboot.

is my approach correct ?  

yours approach seemed to be different ?

Thanks

QL

[reaper]

the current 'newest' release that has a preferred status is 11.1.2-h3

starting from 10.1.x you can immediately jump to 11.2 (skipping 10.2, 11.0 and 11.1),you can skip up to 3 software versions: Skip Software Version Upgrade

so the preferred upgrade path in your case is:

download and install 10.2.9-h1

reboot

download 11.1.0

download and install 11.1.2-h3

reboot

[Qui]

We did just that and it worked magical.

Thank you for your response.