I’m curious what is so valuable about it?  As I said, CIFS connections are still lost and NFS and iSCSI both will easily survive a reboot, so where does the NDU value come into play?  I’m not certain what it buys.

 

Jeff Kennedy

QCT Engineering Compute

858-651-6592

 

From: Leeds, Daniel [mailto:dleeds@edmunds.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:28 PM
To: Kennedy, Jeffrey; Borzenkov, Andrey; philip.boyle@eircom.net; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST

 

 

NDU is highly valuable when you are running 24x7 environments with live active data.  We have had alot of success with this but still prefer a scheduled upgrade downtime if possible.  Both work great.  :)


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Kennedy, Jeffrey
Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 11:16 AM
To: Borzenkov, Andrey; philip.boyle@eircom.net; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST

NDU really isn't is it?  CIFS connections are still severed and NFS survives both an NDU and a reboot easily enough.



I've never understood the value of NDU honestly but if someone has a success story I'd be interested to hear it.



Thanks.



Jeff Kennedy

QCT Engineering Compute

858-651-6592



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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Borzenkov, Andrey
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 9:55 PM
To: philip.boyle@eircom.net; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST



As you have clusters, I would recommend first updating to 7.0.6 and then - if required - to 7.2.3 or whatever version is available at this time. Then both of them are NDU. NDU between major releases are supported first starting with 7.2.3 and minimal base release is 7.0.6.



Personally I do not see any point jumping through 7.1 additionally.



Otherwise update from 7.0.4 directly to 7.2.3 was quite straightforward.

? ????????? / With best regards / Mit freundlichen Grü?en

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Andrey Borzenkov
Senior system engineer

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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Philip Boyle
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 9:19 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST



Hi guys,



I'm currently running a number of FAS940 clusters with DATA ONTAP Version 7.0.4  (Sun Feb  5 00:52:53 PST 2006 )

Primarily NFS with some ISCSI.



I'd like to hear back from you re your experiences upgrading to the current s/w releases available on the NOW Site for the FAS940

series system.



http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software?product=Data+ONTAP&platform=FAS940.



Our immediate options are to take a small step to 7.0.6, move up a little further to 7.1.2.1 or go for the latest and greatest, 7.2.3.



Have you guys seen any issues along the upgrade path to any of the above releases?



Looking at the stats there are a decent number of systems running 7.2.3, however the average run-time days per system

is quite low.



Feedback appreciated.



Thanks,

Philip