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  • 1.  6300M and 6200F Upgrade Path

    Posted Dec 18, 2025 08:04 AM

    Good Morning all

    I've inherited several sites running Aruba 6300M's and 6200F's that are locally managed and running a mix of firmware mainly 10.09.1020, 10.10.1070 and 10.13.1040 that I want to upgrade and I'd like some advice please?  

    Would you recommend moving these devices to LSR 10.16.x or is 10.13.x perfectly fine for now?  If you recommend 10.16 can I go direct from 10.13 to 10.16?

    From what I understand I should be able to update from 10.10.1070 directly to 10.13.1140 unless I am missing something?

    For the devices on 10.09.1020 would you recommend I upgrade them to 10.10.x and THEN upgrade to 10.13? 

    Appreciate these are fairly basic questions but many of these switches haven't been touched since they were installed and I'm keen not to wreak any havoc!

    Many thanks

    Neal



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  • 2.  RE: 6300M and 6200F Upgrade Path

    Posted Dec 18, 2025 02:01 PM
    Hi! I suggest you (as per AOS-CX 10.10, 10.13 and 10.16 Release Notes) to move between LSRs from older to newer (say AOS-CX 10.10 -> 10.13 -> 10.16), you can eventually decide to stop at 10.13 but, given the proven stability of latest builds of each LSR, reaching the 10.16 (latest build) will be good as well (I'm planning to move my VSX Clusters from 10.13 to 10.16 for this very good reason).

    My approach with AOS-CX 10.09 (which is a SSR software release) would be (really staying on the safest side): AOS-CX 10.09 -> 10.10 (LSR, latest build) -> 10.13 (LSR, latest build) -> 10.16 (LSR, latest build).

    Moving from AOS-CX 10.10 and 10.13 to 10.16 will be easier/faster: respectively two steps (10.10->10.13->10.16) or one step (10.13->10.16) upgrades.

    From 10.00 - seven years ago - to current 10.13 never hit an issue moving between LSRs (and working with VSX...not standalone).

    AOS-CX 10.17 is the latest SSR (...LSR -> SSR -> SSR -> LSR...), it's up to you to understand if the new features it provides are required or not in your network scenario.

    Kind regards, Davide.





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