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.
С уважением / With best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüβen
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Andrey Borzenkov
Senior system engineer
From:
owner-
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007
9:19 PM
To:
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