6.0 HP X9320 Network Storage System Administrator Guide (AW542-96009, December 2011)

7. On all nodes hosting the passive management console, place the management console into

maintenance mode:

<ibrixhome>/bin/ibrix_fm –m maintenance

8. On the active management console node, disable automated failover on all file serving nodes:

<ibrixhome>/bin/ibrix_server -m -U

9. Run the following command to verify that automated failover is off. In the output, the HA column

should display off.

<ibrixhome>/bin/ibrix_server -l

10. Unmount file systems on Linux X9000 clients:

ibrix_lwumount -m MOUNTPOINT

11. Stop the CIFS, NFS and NDMP services on all nodes. Run the following commands on the

node hosting the active management console:

ibrix_server -s -t cifs -c stop

ibrix_server -s -t nfs -c stop

ibrix_server -s -t ndmp -c stop

If you are using CIFS, verify that all likewise services are down on all file serving nodes:

ps –ef | grep likewise

Use kill -9 to stop any likewise services that are still running.

If you are using NFS, verify that all NFS processes are stopped:

ps –ef | grep nfs

If necessary, use the following command to stop NFS services:

/etc/init.d/nfs stop

Use kill -9 to stop any NFS processes that are still running.

If necessary, run the following command on all nodes to find any open file handles for the

mounted file systems:

lsof </mountpoint>

Use kill -9 to stop any processes that still have open file handles on the file systems.

12. Unmount each file system manually:

ibrix_umount -f FSNAME

Wait up to 15 minutes for the file systems to unmount.

Troubleshoot any issues with unmounting file systems before proceeding with the upgrade.

See “File system unmount issues” (page 93).

Performing the upgrade

This upgrade method is supported only for upgrades from X9000 Software 5.6.x to the 6.0 release.

Complete the following steps:

1. Obtain the latest HP X9000 Quick Restore DVD version 6.0 ISO image from the HP kiosk at

http://www.software.hp.com/kiosk (you will need your HP-provided login credentials).

2. Copy the /ibrix directory from the ISO to the /root directory on the disk running the OS.

3. Change directory to /root/ibrix on the disk running the OS and then run chmod -R 777

on the entire directory structure.

4. Run the following upgrade script:

./auto_ibrixupgrade

The upgrade script automatically stops the necessary services and restarts them when the

upgrade is complete. The upgrade script installs the management console on all file serving

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