Users Guide

Lifecycle management

This chapter explains common lifecycle operations of upgrading the SmartFabric OS10, OMNI appliance, switch replacement,

fabric backup, and restore.

Upgrade OMNI appliance

This section explains how to upgrade the OMNI appliance for major and minor releases.

Upgrade OMNI during major releases

To upgrade OMNI appliance from older version to 1.3:

1. Prerequisite

Save the following details:

● IP address or hostname of the SmartFabric instances that are manually added in the OMNI VM.

● IP address or FQDN information of all the vCenters that are registered with the OMNI VM.

● IP address or hostname of the OMNI VM.

● Details of the ens192 and ens160 interface settings.

2. Unregister the older version of OMNI VM from the vCenter, see Manage vCenter with OMNI.

3. Shut down the older OMNI VM.

4. Deploy the new OMNI VM, see Create OMNI virtual appliance.

5. Configure the OMNI VM with the documented settings and complete the full setup, see OMNI setup.

Upgrade OMNI during minor releases

You must be in the OMNI VM Console to use these steps. After you upgrade the appliance, register the appliance with the

vCenter Server then.

NOTE:

The OMNI appliance upgrade information only applies to the OMNI minor release upgrade. For example, use this

option to upgrade the OMNI VM from 1.3.16 to 1.3.18.

To upgrade OMNI appliance from one minor version to another:

1. Download the OMNI upgrade image from the Dell EMC Support portal and store the image on an SCP server.

Check the existing version.

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