{"id":2732,"date":"2017-09-07T11:24:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2017-09-11T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T10:16:35","slug":"citrix-netscaler-v10-1-upgrade-to-v12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/citrix-netscaler-v10-1-upgrade-to-v12","title":{"rendered":"Citrix Netscaler v10.1 Upgrade to v12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download the .tgz\u00a0upgrade file from here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citrix.co.uk\/downloads\/netscaler-adc\/firmware.html\">https:\/\/www.citrix.co.uk\/downloads\/netscaler-adc\/firmware.html<\/a><\/p><p>Save your configuration first ( remember this does not save automatically ) and backup a config backup.<\/p><p>If this is a virtual machine do a snapshot \/ chekpoint<\/p><p>Let\u2019s get started with the upgrade wizard:<\/p><p><a class=\"cboxElement\" title=\"NetScaler upgrade wizard\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-1.png\" rel=\"lightbox[564]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-565 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-1-300x130.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-1-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-1-1024x445.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-1.png 1045w\" alt=\"NetScaler upgrade wizard\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>select the location for the firmware file:<\/p><p><a class=\"cboxElement\" title=\"Firmware\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-2.png\" rel=\"lightbox[564]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-566 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-2-300x142.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-2-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-2.png 815w\" alt=\"Firmware\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>Next, verify the licenses you have already installed these will work with the new netscaler and begin the upgrade.\\<\/p><p><a class=\"cboxElement\" title=\"NetScaler upgrade warning\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-3.png\" rel=\"lightbox[564]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-567 size-medium img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-3-300x151.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-3-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-3.png 821w\" alt=\"NetScaler upgrade warning\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>The upgrade will take down the gui first , then after the netscaler when it says rebooting<\/p><p>Other key things to note \u2013\u00a0<strong>the upgrade has turned back on SSLv3<\/strong>\u00a0support on the Gateway vServer\u2026however, it has enabled support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 which was missing from the 8007.e release. Nice!<\/p><p><a class=\"cboxElement\" title=\"SSL TLS\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-4.png\" rel=\"lightbox[564]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-568 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-4-300x134.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-4-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-4-1024x457.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.serioustek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NS11-4.png 1035w\" alt=\"SSL TLS\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>The new web interface will look like below<\/p><p>If you see a solid black screen after upgrade you will need to delete your cache or do a CTRL and F5<\/p><p id=\"IwyOCzW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2733  img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_59b12ba42ea18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_59b12ba42ea18.png 1133w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_59b12ba42ea18-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_59b12ba42ea18-768x306.png 768w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_59b12ba42ea18-1024x408.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Note<\/strong><\/p><p>Double check the SSL Profile on your virtual server make sure it&#8217;s set to :\u00a0<strong>ns_default_ssl_profile_frontend<\/strong><\/p><p>With SSL3 off and TLS 1.2 on , you can check via :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssllabs.com\/ssltest\/\">https:\/\/www.ssllabs.com\/ssltest\/<\/a><\/p><p id=\"UeBzbvH\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2745  img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_59b662197bf7f.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_59b662197bf7f.png 299w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_59b662197bf7f-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the .tgz\u00a0upgrade file from here\u00a0https:\/\/www.citrix.co.uk\/downloads\/netscaler-adc\/firmware.htmlSave your configuration first ( remember this does not save automatically ) and backup a config backup.If this is a virtual machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2080,2078,2077,646,2074,2091,2088,2089,2090,569,2075,2076,2079],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-2080","tag-after-upgrade","tag-black-screen","tag-citrix","tag-netscaler","tag-ns_default_ssl_profile_frontend","tag-ssl-profile","tag-ssl-v4","tag-tls-1-2","tag-upgrade","tag-v10-1","tag-v12","tag-vpx"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}