Hi,

 

I just had Dell in to add an additional PS6110 enclosure into an existing array group of 6 enclosures. As part of the install they needed to update the firmware on all enclosures. As they all have multiple controllers, in my naivety I was expecting this to be able to be done without powering down all connected servers and effectively taking the whole array down. However each enclosure had to be rebooted which took all the volumes offline as they were "vertically striped" across the members.

Isn't there a method to perform these updates without so much disruption?

 

Also as the f/w was uploaded to the members and the restart option was taken from the GUI, the enclosures did not appear to restart and come back online. After approx. 15 mins I had to connect a serial cable and restart from the CLI? ??

 

Thanks,

 

Gerry