Mustafa,
I ran through the upgrade without a problem on 3 filers 3 weeks ago. I upgraded 2 740s and one 720. I have one 720 and one 740 doing a Snapmirror to another 740 in a remote location. I had to turn off the snapmirror schedule first on the source filers (snapmirror off) and upgrade the destination filer first. Everything went very well.
Grant Galimi Director, Technical Services The Thomson Corporation 1 Station Place Stamford, CT 06902 203-328-9413 203-977-8344 fax grant.galimi@thomson.com mailto:grant.galimi@thomson.com http://www.thomson.com http://www.thomson.com
-----Original Message----- From: Sayla, Mustafa [mailto:MSAYLA@mesirowfinancial.com] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:17 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Upgrading F760 from Ontap 6.01R3 to 6.1.1R2
We are looking into upgrading our Data Ontap version to 6.1.1R2 and just wanted to find out whether there are issues with it or not. We have to upgrade it because I want to use the new DS14 shelf and it is not supported in 6.0.1R3. We have our Exchange, MS SQL and Sybase data on it. Has anybody done this upgrade and how did it went. Any input will be appreciated.
Mustafa
We want to upgrade also, - have got the downloads but what did you use for a step-by-step guide?
Its our first time on our first filer and the docs that come with the upgrade are vague. For instance what do we do with the 4 boot disks. Are they used for the upgrade process?
Thanks.
Generally speaking, no. If you are moving from 6.0.x to 6.1.x you will not need the boot disk.
* You should be root for these instructions. *For UNIX admin host you will first need to untar the systems file. This should be in a file called something like 611R2_sysfiles_a.tar. This will extract two files, install_netapp and tar_image. - The install_netapp file is a bourne shell script. - The tar_image is a tar file containing all of the system files. * Mount your root volume at the root level. - mount filer.domain.name:/vol/vol0 /mnt * Execute the install script - ./install_netapp -k /mnt - The -k option keeps the two files extracted from the sysfiles tar ball. If you omit this option, it deletes these two files when it complete. Keeping these two files makes it quicker if you need to update more than one filer. * You will see a lot of information cross your screen during the install. This is normal * Once the install script if finished, telnet to the filer and enter the command "download" - filer> download * I do not remember if the reboot is automatic at the end of the process or manual. It has been a while since I did an OS upgrade. If the reboot is not automatic, reboot the filer. Since there is a reboot involved, I suggest performing the upgrade during a slow time off hours. Depending on your filer configuration, the reboot process takes about two minutes.
-gdg
Walt Zapor wrote:
We want to upgrade also, - have got the downloads but what did you use for a step-by-step guide?
Its our first time on our first filer and the docs that come with the upgrade are vague. For instance what do we do with the 4 boot disks. Are they used for the upgrade process?
Thanks.
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Walt Zapor wrote:
Its our first time on our first filer and the docs that come with the upgrade are vague. For instance what do we do with the 4 boot disks. Are they used for the upgrade process?
You generally do not need to do anything "special" going from minor release to minor release (even from 5.x to 6.x, in most situations). For the majority of OS upgrades, you simply untar/unzip the new /etc files over top of the old ones (there is a script that will do that for you), then run the "download" command on the filer to update the boot blocks on the drives, and reboot. That is pretty much it.
Be sure to consult the minimum firmware version requirements for the particular hardware model and OS version you are moving to. I recently upgraded from a pair of F740s running 5.3.x to a pair of F840's running 6.1.1R2, keeping the same drives. I had to upgrade the firmware on the F840's before they could run 6.1.1R2, and because I was switching from Alpha (F740) to Intel (F840), I also had to boot from floppy first. Still, with judicious planning, the service outage per Netapp was less than 5 minutes. The easy part was installing the new 6.1.1R2 /etc files!
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Brian Tao -
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Mr. G. D. Geen -
Walt Zapor