Preparing For The Upgrade; Performing The Upgrade - HP StoreAll 9730 Administrator's Manual

When performing an online upgrade, note the following:
File systems remain mounted and client I/O continues during the upgrade.
The upgrade process takes approximately 45 minutes, regardless of the number of nodes.
The total I/O interruption per node IP is four minutes, allowing for a failover time of two minutes
and a failback time of two additional minutes.
Client I/O having a timeout of more than two minutes is supported.

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 StoreAll 6.x releases.
IMPORTANT:
Complete the following steps:
1. This release is only available through the registered release process. To obtain the ISO image,
contact HP Support to register for the release and obtain access to the software dropbox.
2. Ensure that the /local/ibrix/ folder is empty prior to copying the contents of pkgfull.
The upgrade will fail if the /local/ibrix/ folder contains leftover .rpm packages not listed
in the build manifest.
3. Mount the pkg-full ISO image and copy the entire directory structure to the /local/ibrix/
directory, as shown in the following example:
mount -o loop
/local/pkg/ibrix-pkgfull-FS_6.3.72+IAS_6.3.72-x86_64.signed.iso
/mnt/
4. Change the permissions of all components in the /local/ibrix/ directory structure by
entering the following command:
chmod -R 777 /local/ibrix/
5. Change to the /local/ibrix/ directory.
cd /local/ibrix/
6. Run the upgrade script and follow the on-screen directions:
./auto_online_ibrixupgrade
7. Upgrade Linux StoreAll clients. See
8. If you received a new license from HP, install it as described in
for your current release.
Complete all steps provided in the
CLI guide for your current release.
Table 1 (page
"Upgrading Linux StoreAll clients" (page
Online upgrades for StoreAll software
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"Licensing" (page 135).
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