Hi Randy,
since ONTAP 7 is based upon NetBSD and ONTAP 8 on FreeBSD and the whole approach to the Sims completely changed (install on a *nix/Linux vs. complete VM) I don't see any way you could do an in-place upgrade...
OTOH the usual migration scenarios should work, e.g. set up host-based mirroring or a SnapMirror or just plain ndmpcopy if you're offline anyway.
Hope that helps
Sebastian
On 24.09.2012 19:17, Randy Rue wrote:
Hey there,
We're running a NetApp simulator running 7.3.5 and have connected iSCSI clients that we've upgraded SnapDrive on to 6.4. Now we're ready to upgrade the simulator to 8.1.1. I was under the impression that upgrading a simulator meant shutting down the simulator and running the new version's simultator installer, where it would sense the previous install and upgrade it in place.
But a look at the NOW site shows only a VMware appliance for 8.x, looks like the approach has changed?
Is there any way to upgrade a 7.3.5 simulator in place to 8.1.1, preserving existing LUNs? Or to migrate or copy existing LUNs from a 7.3.5 simulator to an 8.1.1?
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