6.2 HP IBRIX 9300/9320 Storage Administrator Guide (AW549-96049, December 2012)

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 (Table 2 (page 111)).
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 for your current release.
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 CLI guide for your current release.
Performing the upgrade
The online upgrade is supported only from the IBRIX 6.x to 6.2 release.
IMPORTANT: Complete all steps provided in the Table 2 (page 111).
Complete the following steps:
1. To obtain the latest HP IBRIX 6.2.1 (pkg-full.ISO) ISO image, register to download the
software on the HP StoreAll Download Drivers and Software web page.
2. Mount the ISO image and copy the entire directory structure to the /local/ibrix directory
on the disk running the OS.
The following is an example of the mount command:
mount -o loop
/local/pkg/ibrix-pkgfull-FS_6.2.374+IAS_6.2.374-x86_64.iso /mnt
3. Change directory to /local/ibrix and then run chmod -R 777 * on the entire directory
structure.
4. Run the upgrade script and follow the on-screen directions:
./auto_online_ibrixupgrade
5. Upgrade Linux 9000 clients. See “Upgrading Linux 9000 clients” (page 120).
6. If you received a new license from HP, install it as described in the “Licensing” chapter in this
guide.
After the upgrade
Complete these 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 “Upgrading firmware” (page 125).
3. Start any Remote Replication, Rebalancer, or data tiering tasks that were stopped before the
upgrade.
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 IBRIX software 6.0 or later,
or the pre-6.0 file system containing the files must be upgraded for snapshots. To upgrade
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