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тАО10-30-2009 07:16 AM
тАО10-30-2009 07:16 AM
Our new units (seperate cluster and managment group) are SanIQ8.1. They came in as 8.0, I upgraded to 8.1 which went fine and very fast, but they also have no volumes or data defined yet.
My question is upgrading the two 7.0 to 8.1. Can anyone tell me if this also is a fairly quick process and if there is any gotcha's or the like? I wasn't sure if the amount of data on the units plays any role in upgrade time or difficulty?
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Re: San IQ 7 to San IQ 8.1 Upgrade Questions
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тАО10-30-2009 11:34 AM
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Re: San IQ 7 to San IQ 8.1 Upgrade Questions
The existing data will remain on the existing LHSan, so it would be an inplace upgrade.
We were going to upgrade the existing units so they were current, or is this one of those "let sleeping dogs lay" (ie we should leave them alone).
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тАО10-31-2009 05:51 AM
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Re: San IQ 7 to San IQ 8.1 Upgrade Questions
As far as I know it is painless and can be done online. You should always read any release notes first which should advise you of any gotchas!
However, I believe when you do the upgrade it is recommended to only do one node at a time and make sure that you do the node that is serving out the VIP LAST.
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тАО10-31-2009 06:01 AM
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Re: San IQ 7 to San IQ 8.1 Upgrade Questions
The tip to read the release notes is a good idea as their might be a patch that is suggested for you to install before the upgrade.
The size of data in the SAN does not impact how long it takes to apply the upgrade at all.
The number of nodes, and how much data you write to the SAN during the upgrade, both affect how long it takes.
Number of nodes matters because it does one node at a time.
How much you write to the SAN matters because the upgrades will wait for all volumes to re-syncronize between node reboots, and if you write 1GB of data while a node is rebooting, you'll have to wait longer for the 1GB to re-sychronize before the next node can start installing.
The less load the system is under during the upgrade the faster it will go.
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тАО11-02-2009 04:15 AM
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Re: San IQ 7 to San IQ 8.1 Upgrade Questions
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тАО11-02-2009 07:31 AM
тАО11-02-2009 07:31 AM
Solution1. Install Updated CMC.
2. If applicable, upgrade the DSM's for MPIO. This is a pain as it requires the old one to be uninstalled and is multiple reboots (if you are going from 7 to 8, not bad if from 8 to 8.1).
3. Upgrade all Remote Clusters (normal -> managers -> VIPs).
4. Upgrade normal nodes (non manager/non VIP).
5. Upgrade managers
6. Upgrade VIP.
NSM160's took about 18 minutes per upgrade. x3650's took about 6 minutes per upgrade. DL320/P4000's took about 6 minutes per upgrade. This is with about 30TB of data during production hours.
We did take all our connected servers offline for the manager/VIP updates as the systems wait 15 seconds I think before they hand off if you down the VIP (causing iSCSIprt errors on Windows and lockups on ESX). As we are very data intensive, I find it safer to go this route.
Good luck!
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тАО11-02-2009 07:33 AM
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