Greetings!

Hi Data Security Team,

Hope you can enlighten me on this.

We are planning to upgrade GDE 4.0.0.1 to 4.0.0.4 then to 4.0.0.9 in preparation for migrating it to a GDE 5.1.0 (CTM).

Upon reviewing the documentation, it tells that the upgrade should be done on the initial node. The steps are:

1. Break the DSM Cluster
   1. remove fail-over nodes
   2. login to fail-over nodes, then cleanup HA config
2. Upgrade the initial node
3. Upgrade the failover nodes
4. Rebuild the cluster

I am not the one who built the environment and the team members are having trouble finding the old records for this environment.

My question is, how can I identify what node is the initial node?

On GDE 3.0, it is easy to identify the initial node because you can only apply changes on the initial node and fail-over nodes are on READ ONLY mode by default. However, from what I have observed, the default for GDE 4.0 fail-over nodes are no longer in READ ONLY.

Are there indicators in the GUI that I may have missed?

When I check the console, and run ha >> show  , it only shows the list of nodes in alphabetical order and no indicators for the initial node.

Regards,

- Julius

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Julius Ballesteros
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Hi @Julius Ballesteros,

Upgrading from GDE v4x to GDE v5x requires a rehost and migration. Thales changed the product between versions, so you would be going from Data Security Manager (DSM) to CipherTrust Manager (CTM).  You'll want to review this documentation: Migrate from Data Security Manager.

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Wendy Zemba
Sr. Consultant, Data Protection
wendy.zemba@convergetp.com
Converge Technology Solutions

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