>>In this video,
we will look at upgrading an Orion platform installation,
running NPM and SAM
to Hybrid Cloud Observability advanced
and the SolarWinds self-hosted platform.
First, let's look at
a couple of system requirement differences
between what you can run the Orion platform with
and what you will need to run
the SolarWinds self hosted platform
in Hybrid Cloud Observability.
Your application server must be running
at least Windows 2016.
We also support 2019 and 2022.
Your Microsoft SQL version
for all databases in Hybrid Cloud Observability
must be at least Microsoft SQL 2016 Service pack one.
We also support 2016 Service Pack 2,
2017, 2019, and 2022.
This includes running Microsoft SQL on Linux servers
if you wish.
Please follow Microsoft and Linux documentation
for properly deploying SQL on a Linux server.
You will be establishing three databases in this upgrade.
The primary database, a flow database, and a logs database.
If you have any of the second two databases already,
perhaps you are running NTA or Log Analyzer,
they will be upgraded.
If not, you'll create new ones.
These are very high level changes and requirements.
As for all customers looking to spec their SolarWinds server,
database, polars, and Environment,
we strongly encourage you to refer
to the multi-module deployment guide
on the success center knowledge base.
You can find a link to that document
in the description field for this video.
For the most part, Hybrid Cloud Observability
installs and upgrades
and supports the same methods you are used to with Orion.
However, we have added an instant evaluation feature
for Hybrid Cloud Observability,
which you may wish to start with
before working to a fully licensed production version.
If you are running a module based install
on the SolarWinds self-hosted platform
version 2022.4 or later,
you can take advantage of the instant eval feature
in the web console.
For further information on the instant evaluation,
check out the video and blog links
in the description notes for this video.
You can upgrade from the web console
much like online upgrades that have been supported in Orion
for a few years now.
You can download both the online installer
and the offline installer ISO for closed environments
from the customer portal.
This is also the process that has been used in Orion
for quite a while now.
Like the Orion modules, Hybrid Cloud Observability
can also be deployed in the Amazon and Azure marketplaces.
One more consideration.
If you have customized parts of your current deployment
beyond using standard customization tools
such as new views and reports,
please take a look at the current release notes
to be sure your customizations
will not cause an issue on your upgrade.
If you are unclear,
please reach out to support for clarification.
Let's take a look at a live demo of the upgrade.
So let's look at upgrading the server.
As we discuss, the upgrade process is very similar
to upgrading any of the Orion products
and is a process you're probably used to.
For this demo, we're going to upgrade a 2020.2.6
Orion platform server and running NPM and SAM
to Hybrid Cloud Observability Advanced.
And you can see the web console here on this server.
We scroll down to the bottom,
we can see that we're running NPM and SAM 2020.2.6.
Remember also, that you can install
and evaluate Hybrid Cloud Observability instantly
from the web console
if you have already upgraded your Orion platform
to the newer SolarWinds self-hosted platform
while still running product modules.
Resources for that particular install process
and other related resources for this upgrade video
are contained in the video notes.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and close my web console here.
On the desktop, I have the offline installer.
You can use the online installer, the offline installer.
In this demo, we are just gonna go ahead and mount this ISO
and we're gonna run the installer locally.
I always right click and run as administrator
just to get past any potential type issues.
And we're just gonna let that installer go ahead and start.
Okay. So, as you can see here,
the wizard is gonna update the current deployment
to the newer version.
So, we are currently running 2020.2.6
and we're going to come up to 2023.1.1,
which at the time of this recording
is the current generally available version
for Hybrid Cloud Observability.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and say start.
We're gonna accept the ULA license agreement here
and say next.
And then we're gonna wait
while the environment system checks run.
Okay.
So, we have a couple of messages that we have to confirm.
Notice that the install button is grayed out
until we address what's on this page.
First of all, as with all upgrades
and any modifications made to your SolarWinds installations,
we always strongly recommend
that you have a backup of your database.
So, we do have to confirm that and we say confirm.
And we also recommend a restore point.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and say confirm on that one as well.
And what we're seeing down here is just a warning message.
It's not going to block us from doing the install.
And that is, we're gonna be installing or configuring
a flow storage database and a logs database
for flow and flow analysis features
in Hybrid Cloud Observability.
You may have been familiar with some of those features
from net flow traffic analyzer.
And for logs, CIS logs traps, event logs and such
for log analysis features or the log analyzer products.
So, we will be adding these two databases in as well
and we'll see that in the config wizard.
So, I'm okay with everything that we have listed here
and I'm just gonna go ahead and say install.
Depending on the size of your environment,
your installations and configuration wizards
can take several minutes to run, quite a little bit of time.
So, you may just have to be patient
and let the installer go.
Okay. Now that the installation is complete,
now we're gonna walk through the configuration wizard
much like we've always done
with any SolarWinds, Orion products installs and upgrades.
So, in the config wizard, we're gonna go ahead
and confirm the settings
for things like our primary SolarWinds database
but also then set up the database for flows
and then set up the database for logs.
So, I'm just gonna go ahead and say next.
The first thing we're gonna do
is just confirm the SQL server.
This is our primary database, so we're good there.
Confirm that database name here.
So, we're good there.
And we're gonna confirm the account that we're going to use
for Orion or for our primary database account.
So, we'll confirm that.
There's our website settings, we can confirm that
or change them if we need to.
Now, we're gonna set up the database for logs.
Now, whether or not you can place that database
on the same SQL server as other SolarWinds databases,
that's something you can determine
using the multi-module deployment guide
like we discussed earlier
that will help you spec out your environment correctly
and determine whether or not your databases
can run on some of the same SQL servers
or if they need to be separated.
So, please make sure you make that determination
before you get into this step here where you have to decide.
In the case of my demo,
I'm just gonna put all these databases
on the same server here
so that we can illustrate
how to walk through this config wizard.
So, I'm just gonna place it on the same database,
which means it'll inherit
the authentication and the credentials
and where that database is.
We're simply just gonna need to name that database
for what we'll be store in there such as logs or flows.
So, I'm gonna say next.
I'm gonna go ahead and give it a name.
I'm gonna say next.
And then we're gonna set the same thing up for flow
so we don't have to set up very much
just basically, I need a new database, here's the name
because we're going to the same server.
So, all of the permissions and credentials of inherited.
So, now for flows,
I'm also gonna put that on the same server
and I'm gonna give that one a name.
And we'll say next.
And I'm gonna use this user account.
And we'll say next again.
We get the summary window for our config wizard
and we're gonna say next.
And of course this can take several minutes to run
so we'll just wait for this configuration to run
before we take a look at the next steps.
Okay. Now, that our configuration wizard is complete,
we're gonna go ahead and click finish
and launch the web console
so we can complete this upgrade
to Hybrid Cloud Observability.
Now that we're logged back into the web console here,
we can see it still looks pretty much the same.
And actually if we scroll down to the bottom of the window,
we will see that it is still showing SAM and NPM
but the platform version has come up to 2023.1.1.
There's a little bit of a difference here
from what you might have been used to
with adding products in the past
and that you would do the install
and then they would show up with an evaluation banner
here at the top.
With Hybrid Cloud Observability on an upgrade from Orion,
it's just a little bit different
but actually not that difficult.
So if I go over to my settings and I go to all settings,
I'm gonna go all the way to the bottom
and I'm gonna go into the licensing manager here.
Now, there's a couple ways you can do this.
You can walk over here and click start your free trial
for trying observability free.
And what that does is just activate all the features
which have already installed with the platform.
Or since if you already have your production license
and since I do,
you can just come up here to the top and say add license.
Add the license
and it'll do all of that on the backend for you
and unlock and activate those features.
So, I'm just gonna do it that way.
I'm gonna click add license, I'm gonna give it my key
and I'm gonna make sure
that the information that I have filled in here is correct.
I'm gonna say activate
and we're just gonna give it a minute.
There you go.
Can see here that it has been activated.
So, I say okay.
I'm gonna jump back out to my summary page here
just to refresh everything
and this should load right up on a refresh.
And as you can see, it does.
I now have all of the dashboards
for all of the feature sets for Hybrid Cloud Observability.
Instead of just having network and applications
from NPM and SAM, I have all of the other pieces as well.
And as you can see at the bottom of the page,
we now have Hybrid Cloud Observability advanced license.
So, for the most part,
upgrading from the Orion modules
up to Hybrid Cloud Observability is pretty similar
to all the upgrade processes of the past in Orion
There's just a couple of pieces that are slightly different.
You do have to add the additional databases
and at the end of the process,
you do have to go either
turn on the trial of Hybrid Cloud Observability
or add your production license
to fully activate Hybrid Cloud Observability.
But at this point, I can go straightforward now
and start using Hybrid Cloud Observability
in my environment.
Please be sure to check out the links shared with this video
and reach out to your sales engineer or support
if you have any further questions
about upgrading your Orion server
to Hybrid Cloud Observability.