HP StorageWorks Clustered Gateway (server/software bundle) 3.6.1 Windows Storage Server Edition upgrade guide (AG515-96012, September 2008)

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Contents

1 HP Technical Support

HP Storage Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

For complete documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2 Upgrade procedure

Supported Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Upgrade Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Upgrade All Servers As Quickly As Possible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Use Another Machine to Store All Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

HP Clustered File System Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Pre-Upgrade Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Upgrading to 3.6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Upgrading from 3.4.0 to 3.6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Upgrading from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Post-Upgrade Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

If HP Command View EVA v5.x is Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

If HP Command View EVA v6.x is Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Performance dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Changes Necessitated by the Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Upgrade Filesystems for Alternate Data Streams (ADS) . . . . . . 13

Upgrade Filesystems for 8.3 SFN Support If Needed. . . . . . . . . 14

Replace Membership Partitions That Are Too Small . . . . . . . . . 15

Re-create Concatenated Dynamic Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Remove Custom Setting for GcTrimLevel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Re-create Notifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Upgrade the HP CFS Management Console on Clients . . . . . . . 18

Configure New Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18