I'd stick to what your conservative nature is telling you.
I'm fairly sure you have to reboot after a firmware update before installing ontap. I also wouldn't want to change three things at once - too many variables there for my liking.
regards John
Stephen C. Losen wrote:
We are adding FC interface cards and new shelves of 750G disks to a FAS960c pair. We need to upgrade ONTAP from 7.1.1.1 to 7.2.3 to support the disks and our system firmware is not the latest.
I was wondering if we dare try and do all of this with a single reboot like this:
install firmware files and download install ONTAP files and download halt and run update_flash to install firmware power off install interface cards connect new shelves and power them up power up the heads
I am concerned that now the filers will come up with new firmware, a new version of ONTAP, and newly installed hardware and disks. Am I asking for trouble?
My conservative nature tells me to install the firmware, boot back up, install ONTAP, reboot, shut down, power off, install the new hardware and power back on. It will take only a few more minutes.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support