How many disks? I'm assuming FC disk.
Make sure you don't update your disk firmware before upgrading Data ONTAP. The now site mentions bug ID - 113823, so do some reading on that. Also expect some temporary performance degradation when you do the disk/shelf firmware upgrade (this is not the same as upgrading Dataontap. Disks, and shelves all have their own firmware revisions you need to look out for). The disk upgrade itself can take 2-3 min per disk drive.
You're going to love the improvements from a 6->7 upgrade though. Auto delete snapshots, and flexvols = your friend.
As long as you have NetApp involved you should be covered.
Good luck!
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Goodin, Jeff Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:22 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Ontap 7 Upgrade.
We are planning to upgrade our clustered 940 filers from 6.5.6P3 to 7.2.3.
We had netapp run an Upgrade Advisor for us.
I would appreciate any comments/suggestions on upgrading to 7. We are running 7 on a couple of 3050's that were shipped with 7, but we haven't upgraded any systems from 6 to 7. Any gotcha's that anyone is aware of?
We only use these systems for CIFS and NFS.
Thanks,
Jeff.