Preparing For The Upgrade; Performing The Upgrade; After The Upgrade - HP IBRIX 9300 Administrator's Manual

Preparing for the upgrade

To prepare for the upgrade, complete the following steps, ensure that high availability is enabled
on each node in the cluster by running the following command:
ibrix_haconfig -l
If the command displays an Overall HA Configuration Checker Results - PASSED
status, high availability is enabled on each node in the cluster. If the command returns Overall
HA Configuration Checker Results - FAILED, complete the following list items based
on the result returned for each component:
1. Make sure you have completed all steps in the upgrade checklist
2. If Failed was displayed for the HA Configuration or Auto Failover columns or both, perform
the steps described in the section "Configuring High Availability on the cluster" in the
administrator guide
3. If Failed was displayed for the NIC or HBA Monitored columns, see the sections for
ibrix_nic -m -h <host> -A node_2/node_interface and ibrix_hba -m -h
<host> -p <World_Wide_Name> in the

Performing the upgrade

The online upgrade is supported only from the IBRIX 6.x to 6.2 release.
IMPORTANT:
Complete the following steps:
1. To obtain the latest HP IBRIX 6.2.1 (pkg-full.ISO) ISO image, register to download the
software on the
2. Mount the ISO image and copy the entire directory structure to the /local/ibrix directory
on the disk running the OS.
The following is an example of the mount command:
mount -o loop
/local/pkg/ibrix-pkgfull-FS_6.2.374+IAS_6.2.374-x86_64.iso /mnt
3. Change directory to /local/ibrix and then run chmod -R 777 * on the entire directory
structure.
4. Run the upgrade script and follow the on-screen directions:
./auto_online_ibrixupgrade
5. Upgrade Linux 9000 clients. See
6. If you received a new license from HP, install it as described in the "Licensing" chapter in this
guide.

After the upgrade

Complete these steps:
1. If your cluster nodes contain any 10Gb NICs, reboot these nodes to load the new driver. You
must do this step before you upgrade the server firmware, as requested later in this procedure.
2. Upgrade your firmware as described in
3. Start any Remote Replication, Rebalancer, or data tiering tasks that were stopped before the
upgrade.
4. If you have a file system version prior to version 6, you might have to make changes for
snapshots and data retention, as mentioned in the following list:
Snapshots. Files used for snapshots must either be created on IBRIX software 6.0 or later,
or the pre-6.0 file system containing the files must be upgraded for snapshots. To upgrade
for your current release.
Complete all steps provided in the
HP StoreAll Download Drivers and Software
CLI guide for your current release.
Table 2 (page
"Upgrading Linux 9000 clients" (page
"Upgrading firmware" (page
Online upgrades for IBRIX software 6.x to 6.2
(Table 2 (page 111)).
111).
web page.
120).
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