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Performing a non-disruptive upgrade of our Network ▼  2008 (18)
Appliance FAS 3020 (clustered filer configuration) ► September (1)
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One of the benefits of having the clustered filers (FAS3020c) is ► July (1)
that I can, in most cases, perform a system upgrade without ▼  May (1)
having to disrupt services running on either system. The process Ontap Upgrade 7.2.3 to 7.2.4
is a little complex but well worth the payoff as in our (Non disruptive Upgra...

environment I literally have thousands of students connecting to ► April (2)

the storage at a time. Below is a slightly modified version of my ► March (12)

notes from the upgrade (use at your own risk). I followed the
directions from NetApp's upgrade guide. Although, I will note
that their directions were not exact. I had differing outputs from About Me
commands at times which made me a little nervous. All in all the
Swaminathan S.A.
upgrade went pretty smooth and the systems have been running Boston, MA, United States
solid since.
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Download from now.netapp.com under Download

Software – Data OnTap – FAS 3020c

new Shelf Firmware from now.netapp.com (all shelf firmware

updates)

new Disk Firmware from now.netapp.com (all disk firmware

updates)

newest release of Filer Firmware CFE 3.1

newest GA Release of Data OnTap 7.2.3

docs for Data OnTap 7.2.3

Copied and Made backups of files

Mounted \\filerA\c$

Mounted \\filerB\c$

Made of backup of c$\etc\ folder on both systems (minus log

files)
- Copy to c$\backup\etc_8-24-2007

From shelf zip file to the etc\shelf_fw on the both filerA and
filerB

From shelf zip file to the etc\shelf_fw on the both filerA and
filerA

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From disk zip file to the etc\disk_fw on the both filerA and
filerB

From disk zip file to the etc\disk_fw on the both filerA and
filerA

Shelf Firmware

Login to the appliance console.

Check current shelf firmware version ( > sysconfig -v )

Enter Advanced privileges ( > priv set advanced )

Start the update (> storage download shelf)

- This will upgrade the shelf firmware on all the disk shelves
in the system. (If you wish to only update the disk shelves
attached to a specific adapter, enter storage download shelf
adapter_number instead).

Accept the update, Press y for yes and hit enter.

To verify the new shelf firmware, ( > sysconfig -v )

Exit Advanced privileges ( > priv set admin )

Disk Firmware

Disk firmware is automatically updated on reboot if there are

updated files in the disk_fw folder. To keep the system from
updating too many disks at once set or verify the following
option.

( > options raid.background_disk_fw_update.enable)

- if it is set to off, I recommend you change it to on

DataOnTap Update

Downloaded the newest General Deployment Release, in

this case it was Data ONTAP 7.2.4.

Verified our system met all requirements for running the

downloaded release, updates were required for Disk
firmware and shelf firmware (which was done above)

Checked known problems and limitations of the new

release to see if any would affect our environment.

Compared bug fixes from current version of OnTap 7.2.3

to new version of 7.2.4.

Downloaded newest documentation for 7.2.4

Update Procedure

With C$ mapped on both filers I ran the downloaded OS install

(self extracting zip files) to the respective \etc directories. This is
the first step and copies all the needed files over to the filers.
Once completed, we perform the procedure below from the NOW
upgrade guide for Windows Clients.

start the install on both systems ( > download )

Checked the cluster status ( > cf status ) to make sure

cluster failover was enabled

Had filerB takeover services for filerA ( > cf takeover )

- This causes filerA to reboot

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During reboot of filerA hit ( ctrl-c ) to enter into

maintenance mode

From maintenance mode type ( > halt ) to do a full

reboot

Hit ( del ) during memory test to get to the CFE prompt

start the firmware update of the filer from the CFE>

prompt using ( CFE> update_flash )

Now reboot, type ( bye ) at console after update was

finished to reboot filerA

filerA is now in a …waiting for giveback state

Now to give services back to filerA we have to force it

using ( > cf giveback –f ) from filerB
- This is required since we are now on different version
of DataOnTap between systems in the cluster.

Giveback successful, checked firmware and OS version

on filerA using ( > sysconfig –v )

After checking services on both systems it's time to

upgrade filerB

Have filerA take over the services of filerB ( > cf

takeover –n )

Type ( > halt ) from filerB to reboot it

During reboot of filerB hit ( ctrl-c ) to enter into

maintenance mode

From maintenance mode type ( > halt ) to do a full

reboot

Hit ( del ) during memory test to get to the CFE prompt

start the firmware update of the filer from the CFE>

prompt using ( CFE> update_flash )

Typed ( bye ) at console after update was finished to

reboot filerB

filerB is now in a …waiting for giveback state

Now to give services back to filerB we have to force it

using (> cf giveback –f ) from filerA
- This is required since we are now on different version
of DataOnTap between systems in the cluster.

Giveback successful, checked firmeware and os version

on filerB using ( > sysconfig –v )
Both systems should now show the updated
firmware and OnTap version 7.2.4

You should also notice that any out of date disk firmware
is automatically updated.

My final steps were to test system connections

We use the following NetApp services: CIFS, FTP, HTTP,

FCP via VMWARE. All worked fine. I Also checked our
student websites and our web based FTP software that
connects to the filer.

Checked Domain connection using cifs testdc ( filerA>

cifs testdc )
- appeared fine

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Addt. Note: If you have MCCS cluster. Please make sure it is

properly brought down before the reboot. Sometimes your luns
doesn't come up.

Posted by Swaminathan S.A. at 12:24 PM

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