User guide

Upgrade
Use the Admin > System > Upgrade page to:
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View the present ViPR version installed on all VMs, and any newer versions available
in the upgrade repository.
Note
The upgrade repository is on an EMC server by default, and can be changed from the
Admin > System > Configuration > Upgrade page.
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Upgrade to a newer version of ViPR.
Table 5 Supported upgrade paths to ViPR 1.1.0 Patch 1
Version Upgrade path to ViPR 1.1.0 Patch 1
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ViPR 1.0.0 Must first upgrade to ViPR 1.0.0 Patch 1, then to ViPR 1.1.0, then to ViPR
1.1.0 Patch 1.
ViPR 1.0.0 Patch 1 Must first upgrade to ViPR 1.1.0, then to ViPR 1.1.0 Patch 1.
ViPR 1.1.0 Upgrade directly to ViPR 1.1.0 Patch 1
Pre-upgrade planning
Some pre-upgrade steps are required and you should prepare for ViPR to be unavailable
for a period of time.
Prepare for the ViPR virtual appliance to be unavailable for a total of approximately 25
minutes, starting from the time you take the VMs offline for the snapshots, until the
upgraded ViPR virtual appliance state is stable.
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Unmount Linux volumes on page 30.
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Take offline virtual machine snapshots on page 30
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Perform the upgrade on page 31
Unmount Linux volumes before upgrade
Linux volumes that were mounted in v1.0 cannot be expanded, unmounted, or deleted in
v1.1. Before upgrade, run the ViPR service Unmount Volume on Linux on mounted Linux
volumes.
Take virtual machine snapshots before upgrade
You should take snapshots of all ViPR controller VMs before upgrade.
Before you begin
This procedure is not supported and should not be used if data services VMs are
deployed.
This operation requires the System Administrator role in ViPR and root access to the ViPR
controller VMs.
Upgrading ViPR Software
30 EMC ViPR 1.1.0 Installation and Configuration Guide