Deployment Guide

Cluster-Aware Updating overview

This section describes about basic tasks of configuring the Cluster-Aware Updating tool within Microsoft

Windows Server to update the storage nodes of your DSMS configuration. The procedure described

assumes that the failover cluster is both created and validated and the SOFS solution has an SMB share

that all storage nodes can access.

Configuring Cluster-Aware Updating using GUI

1. Extract the DSMS Update Package to an SMB share that all storage nodes can access.

NOTE: The DSMS Update Package can be downloaded from the Dell Support Site from the Dell

Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces product page that corresponds to your system.

2. To create the configuration file, run the BuildConfig.ps1 script, included in the DSMS Update

Package by using PowerShell.

NOTE: The default file name for creation is DefaultHotfixConfig.xml. If you want to

change the default file name, edit the $configName parameter in the BuildConfig.ps1

script. If you edit the file name, ensure that you include option HotfixConfigFileName =

<NewFileName>.xml in the CauPluginArguments box when you go to Step 9 to configure the

advanced options.

3. Click Server Manager → Tools, and then click Cluser-Aware Updating.

4. In the Cluster-Aware Updating window, select the storage cluster from the Connect to a failover

cluster drop-down menu, and then select Connect.

NOTE: Type the name of the cluster, if it is not displayed in the drop-down menu.

5. In the Cluster-Aware Updating window, select Configure cluster self-updating options.

6. In the Configure Self-Updating Options window, click Next.

7. On the Add Clustered Role page, select Add the CAU clustered role, with self -updating mode

enabled, to this cluster

, and then click Next.

8. On the Self-updating schedule page, select the appropriate schedule, and then click Next.

NOTE: You can disable the scheduled task by running the same wizard again, but this step is

necessary to enable Cluster-Aware Updating on the target cluster.

9. On the Advanced Options page, scroll to the bottom of the page and ensure CauPluginName is set

to Microsoft.HotfixPlugin, and then click Next.

NOTE: You can increase the default RebootTimeoutMinutes value on this page. If a node

needs more time to reboot because the amount of component updates, input the number of

minutes in the box allocated.

10. On the Additional Options page, set the Hotfix root folder path to the unpackaged DSMS Update

Package from Step 1.