topic HPE FC SN3000B firmware upgrades in HPE EVA Storage

HPE FC SN3000B firmware upgrades

jlangmead — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:24:49 GMT

I need to do dome firmare upgrades from v7.2.x to v8.0.x on a couple of SN3000B switches. Reading through the release notes I can either do this distruptively but in fewer steps or non-disruptively in more steps. To minimise risk I would rather do more steps that are non-disruptive but I want to know if this is truely non-disutptive using this approach. The environment is very simple with 2 x FC switches, a small number of hosts and single storage array. Whereas some hosts are multipathed there are a couple of hosts with only a single HBA port and therefore connected to just one switch. My interpretation of 'non-disrutpive' is that a single pathed host will not suffer any outage when the switch is upgraded - is this what 'non-disruptive' means in the HPE\Brocade world or do I need to **bleep**down any single pathed hosts first?

Thanks in advance

Re: HPE FC SN3000B firmware upgrades

giladzzz — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:54:20 GMT

you can do it non-disruptively it works fine

you should how ever do it in not in peak hours to keep

on the safe side. but non-disruptively meens the ports don't

go down only the interface restarts.

I have done it many times.

Regards

Re: HPE FC SN3000B firmware upgrades

jlangmead — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:24:10 GMT

Great - many thanks

And the interface restart doesn't impact IO down that path?

Re: HPE FC SN3000B firmware upgrades

giladzzz — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:02:24 GMT

managment interface restarts ports to host stay up

only equipment I saw that can sometimes notice

this are tape devices

Regards