After The Upgrade; Manual Offline Upgrades For Storeall Software 6.X To 6.3; Preparing For The Upgrade - HP StoreAll 9730 Administrator's Manual

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5.
Change to the /local/ibrix/ directory.
cd /local/ibrix/
6.
Run the following upgrade script:
./auto_ibrixupgrade
The upgrade script automatically stops the necessary services and restarts them when the
upgrade is complete. The upgrade script installs the Fusion Manager on all file serving nodes.
The Fusion Manager is in active mode on the node where the upgrade was run, and is in
passive mode on the other file serving nodes. If the cluster includes a dedicated Management
Server, the Fusion Manager is installed in passive mode on that server.
7.
Upgrade Linux StoreAll clients. See
8.
If you received a new license from HP, install it as described in

After the upgrade

Complete the following 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.
Mount file systems on Linux StoreAll clients.
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 StoreAll software 6.0 or
later, or the pre-6.0 file system containing the files must be upgraded for snapshots. To
upgrade a file system, use the upgrade60.sh utility. For more information, see
"Upgrading pre-6.0 file systems for software snapshots" (page
Data retention. Files used for data retention (including WORM and auto-commit) must be
created on StoreAll software 6.1.1 or later, or the pre-6.1.1 file system containing the
files must be upgraded for retention features. To upgrade a file system, use the
ibrix_reten_adm -u -f FSNAME command. Additional steps are required before
and after you run the ibrix_reten_adm -u -f FSNAME command. For more
information, see
5.
If you have an Express Query enabled file system prior to version 6.3, manually complete
each file system upgrade as described in
Express Query enabled file systems" (page

Manual offline upgrades for StoreAll software 6.x to 6.3

Preparing for the upgrade

To prepare for the upgrade, complete the following steps:
1.
Make sure you have completed all steps in the upgrade checklist
2.
Verify that ssh shared keys have been set up. To do this, run the following command on the
node hosting the active instance of the agile Fusion Manager:
ssh <server_name>
Repeat this command for each node in the cluster.
3.
Verify that all file system node servers have separate file systems mounted on the following
partitions by using the df command:
/
/local
"Upgrading Linux StoreAll clients" (page
"Upgrading firmware" (page
"Upgrading pre-6.1.1 file systems for data retention features" (page
"Required steps after the StoreAll Upgrade for pre-6.3
20).
Manual offline upgrades for StoreAll software 6.x to 6.3
18).
"Licensing" (page
135).
136).
180).
(Table 1 (page
10)).
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