Hello,
I am in the process of ensuring all of our Switches are updated as far as they can be and wanted to make sure I did this correctly in order to not break our network. Since this is my first time, I had a few potentially amateur questions.
To start with our setup, we have around 20 Dell Switches ranging from 34xx's to 35xx's as well as two 62xx's
The average software version is 2.0.0.40 with a few of the 34xx's showing in the 1.0.1.10 range. My concern is that these are really, really old versions and the switches haven't been updated in close to half a decade.
I know with our router the amount of time between updates was so long that configuration phrasing had changed, commands changed syntax or were removed etc, and I don't want to upgrade and have our config be entirely broken. I dont know if that same thing applies to switches (although I dont see why not) but wanted to check. I am also curious if I need to do intermediate updates or if I can just apply the latest release?
So in summary my questions are.
1. Is it possible that updates after 2.0.0.40 for 35xx series and 1.0.1.10 for 34xx series will break/void the config I have saved for them?
2. Do I need to install updates in any specific order, or any intermediate updates? Can I just simply install the latest update?
I downloaded the latest update for one of these and read through the PDFs included, although they had instructions on HOW to do the updates, it didn't include any warnings or best practices that answered my concerns.
If theres some pertinent information I left out please let me know.
Thanks,
GT