I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but make sure you use 9.5P-latest or at least a recent P release. That way, if you have to stop at the 9.5 hop for any reason, you are on a recent release.
Also, there is a BURT in 9.5P5 and earlier that requires manual intervention to deal with expired certificates. 9.5P6 and later have the updated certs.
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John
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 03:45:13PM -0500, Philbert Rupkins wrote:
Excellent! Thanks for the responses. Glad to hear this is a smooth process.
We've got two 6 node clusters (each cluster = 3 HA pairs) to upgrade. Snapmirror relationships between each cluster, no cascading to a third cluster or anything like that.
We've never performed a double ONTAP upgrade during a single maintenance window so were a bit hesitant when we saw this upgrade path. This feedback helps alleviate my concerns, really appreciate it. I'll be sure to double the usual maintenance window to allow time for both upgrades.
Excited to get to 9.7. I really wish 9.7 included the GA release of ONTAP S3 but I suppose we'll just have to wait until we get to 9.8.
Happy weekend everybody! -Phil
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 2:46 PM Mitch Wright mishigas@gmail.com wrote:
Philbert:
We did this recently and the upgrade was smooth. Your understanding is correct, it upgrades to 9.5 and then 9.7, but otherwise is the typical process.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:05 PM Philbert Rupkins philbertrupkins@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Toasters,
Anybody have experience, positive or negative, upgrading from 9.3 to 9.7?
It is a supported automated upgrade path but requires packages for both 9.5 and 9.7. My understanding is each node will be upgraded twice (once to 9.5 then to 9.7) but otherwise should follow the typical automated upgrade routine.
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