Hi,
 
we last time had a strange problem when upgrading from Ontap 7.1.1 to 7.2.3
 
The whole content and the solution can be found in this bug report:
 
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=234290
 
This took us about 2 hours to fix. Time that one can save :D
 
Hopefully i have helped some of you!
 
Regards
 
Jochen


From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Borzenkov, Andrey
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:55 AM
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 ?C if required ?C 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.

§³ §å§Ó§Ñ§Ø§Ö§ß§Ú§Ö§Þ / With best regards / Mit freundlichen Gr¨¹¦Âen

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Andrey Borzenkov
Senior system engineer


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