6.3 HP IBRIX X9720/StoreAll 9730 Storage Administrator Guide (AW549-96073, June 2013)

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 136).
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 180).
• 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
files must be upgraded for retention features. To upgrade a file system, use the
ibrix_reten_adm -u -f FSNAME command. Additional steps are required before
and after you run the ibrix_reten_adm -u -f FSNAME command. For more
information, see “Upgrading pre-6.1.1 file systems for data retention features” (page 181).
5. If you have an Express Query enabled file system prior to version 6.3, manually complete
each file system upgrade as described in “Required steps after the StoreAll Upgrade for pre-6.3
Express Query enabled file systems” (page 20).
Automated offline upgrades for StoreAll software 6.x to 6.3
Preparing for the upgrade
To prepare for the upgrade, complete the following steps:
1. Make sure you have completed all steps in the upgrade checklist (Table 1 (page 10)).
2. Stop all client I/O to the cluster or file systems. On the Linux client, use lsof </mountpoint>
to show open files belonging to active processes.
3. Verify that all StoreAll file systems can be successfully unmounted from all FSN servers:
ibrix_umount -f fsname
Performing the upgrade
This upgrade method is supported only for upgrades from StoreAll software 6.x to the 6.3 release.
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/
14 Upgrading the StoreAll software to the 6.3 release