6.3 HP StoreAll 9300/9320 Storage Administrator Guide (AW549-96072, June 2013)

1. Make sure you have completed all steps in the upgrade checklist (Table 1 (page 9)).
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 StoreAll 6.x releases.
IMPORTANT: Complete all steps provided in the Table 1 (page 9).
Complete the following steps:
1. This release is only available through the registered release process. To obtain the ISO image,
contact HP Support to register for the release and obtain access to the software dropbox.
2. Ensure that the /local/ibrix/ folder is empty prior to copying the contents of pkgfull.
The upgrade will fail if the /local/ibrix/ folder contains leftover .rpm packages not listed
in the build manifest.
3. Mount the pkg-full ISO image and copy the entire directory structure to the /local/ibrix/
directory, as shown in the following example:
mount -o loop
/local/pkg/ibrix-pkgfull-FS_6.3.72+IAS_6.3.72-x86_64.signed.iso
/mnt/
4. Change the permissions of all components in the /local/ibrix/ directory structure by
entering the following command:
chmod -R 777 /local/ibrix/
5. Change to the /local/ibrix/ directory.
cd /local/ibrix/
6. Run the upgrade script and follow the on-screen directions:
./auto_online_ibrixupgrade
7. Upgrade Linux StoreAll clients. See “Upgrading Linux StoreAll clients” (page 17).
8. If you received a new license from HP, install it as described in “Licensing” (page 127).
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 128).
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 StoreAll software 6.0 or
later, or the pre-6.0 file system containing the files must be upgraded for snapshots. To
upgrade a file system, use the upgrade60.sh utility. For more information, see
“Upgrading pre-6.0 file systems for software snapshots” (page 159).
• Data retention. Files used for data retention (including WORM and auto-commit) must be
created on StoreAll software 6.1.1 or later, or the pre-6.1.1 file system containing the
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