Update Pfsense+ 22.05 to 23.01 Esxi VM

hispeed

Hi

Does anybody has done something like this:

Pfsense+
V.22.05 update to: 23.01

Machine details:
Virtual Machine on Esxi

This is my gpart situation right now:

I will do the following procedure:

Fullbackup of the configuration
Shutdown
Create a Snapshot
Start up pfsense
Update Pfsense
Reboot
Test or fail

If fail -> Restore snapshot
If OK -> Shutdown
Delete Snapshot and start the VM again

What do you think is this pretty safe?

Thank you for your inputs.

psp

I think it is. Same here on ESXi v6.7:

1st try: updating from console (22.05 to 23.01) failed. Restored snapshot.
2nd try: updating from GUI. All worked properly.

hispeed

@psp

Ok but this sounds also a little bit strange. Until this update i always just clicked in the GUI and then update and that's it ;D never had a problem. This time it's much better with a snapshot....

I have esxi 7.X on the host.

Thanks for your feedback.

hispeed

I updated without any problem to 23.01 it took around 8 minutes and everything worked well.