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The following steps were contributed and tested by joint efforts between the Client Success & Service Delivery team (Andrew Tomkins, thank you!) and the ITS Private Cloud team at EIS.
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Migrate VM to a "Skylake" Domain (Contact VSS for assistance).
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vss-cli --wait compute vm set <id> domain <domain> |
Shut down the system (full shut down)
Code Block vss-cli --wait compute vm set <id> state shutdown --confirm
Power on the virtual machine (system then picks up new chipset identifiers)
Code Block vss-cli --wait compute vm set <id> state on
Proceed with upgrade as you like (e.g. by mounting an ISO or using Windows Update). To mount the ISO execute:
Code Block vss-cli --wait compute vm set <id> cd up --backing Windows_11
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Migrate the VM back to normal fault domain (optional)
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Questions
As always please reach out to vss (at) eis.utoronto.ca if you have any questions or experience any issues.