Vsphere Upgrade Sequences With Vcenter Plug-In - NetApp HCI Manual

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During the powering on process, for approximately five minutes, the KVM console
displays No Signal.
13. After the node is powered on, select Dashboard > Device Information > More info to verify the BIOS and
BMC versions. The upgraded BIOS and BMC versions are displayed. The upgraded version of the BIOS
will not be displayed until the node has fully booted up.
14. If you placed the node in maintenance mode, after the node boots to ESXi, right-click the host (compute
node) name, and select Maintenance Mode > Exit Maintenance Mode, and migrate the VMs back to the
host.
15. In vCenter, with the host name selected, configure and verify the BIOS version.
Find more information
• NetApp Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
• NetApp HCI Resources Page

vSphere upgrade sequences with vCenter Plug-in

Upgrade your vSphere components for a NetApp HCI system with the Element
Plug-in for vCenter Server
When you upgrade the VMware vSphere components of your NetApp HCI installation,
there are some additional steps you will need to take for the Element Plug-in for vCenter
Server.
Steps
1. For vCSA upgrades,
Settings). The QoSSIOC Status field displays
2. For vCSA and Windows upgrades,
associated using the registration utility.
3. Upgrade vSphere, including vCenter Server, ESXi, VMs, and other VMware
When upgrading ESXi for compute nodes for a
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compute node at a time so that only one witness node is temporarily unavailable and
cluster quorum can be maintained.
4. Register the Element Plug-in for vCenter Server again with vCenter.
5. Add clusters using the plug-in.
6. Configure QoSSIOC settings
7. Enable QoSSIOC for all datastores controlled by the plug-in.
Find more information
• NetApp Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
• NetApp HCI Resources Page
• NetApp HCI Two-Node Storage Cluster Technical Report
clear QoSSIOC settings in the plug-in (NetApp Element Configuration > QoSSIOC
unregister
using the plug-in.
Not Configured
after the process is complete.
the plug-in from the vCenter Server with which it is
two-node
components.
cluster, upgrade only one