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Ask The Expert: OneFS Upgrade, Pre-Upgrade Assessment, Firmware and Patches
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Ask The Expert – Isilon’s New Releases: IsilonSD Edge, OneFS.NEXT and CloudPools |
Welcome to this Ask the Expert event session. Here you will have an opportunity to learn about and discuss OneFS Upgrades. Topics of discussion we could have in this thread may include:
- OneFS Pre-Upgrade Assessment
- OneFS Upgrade Process and Planning
- OneFS Post Upgrade Activities
- Node Firmware
- Drive Firmware
- Patch Installation and Removal
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| Ivan Tang is a Technical Support Engineer IV with 15 years at EMC. Throughout his tenure Ivan has been providing escalation engineering support for IP4700, Celerra, VNX and VNXe product lines. He joined Isilon support in 2013, and is currently serving as the Subject Matter Expert for the Administration skill team that covers areas of WebUI, SupportIQ, Security/Hardening, API, Virtualization, IIQ, event management, SNMP, node adds, upgrades, AntiVirus and Deduplication. | |
| Gary Clement is a Critical Response (Fly and Fix) associate at EMC. He started with EMC 3 years ago supporting the Celerra, Clariion and VNX products. Gary helped stand up the Isilon support team in Draper Utah and have been the Tech Lead for the past 1.5 yrs. | |
| Bryan Cope is a Isilon Administration SBR coach / Technical Support Engineer II at EMC. He has been involved with various IT administration projects for the past 7 years. Bryan has worked at EMC Isilon for 3 years, spending most of this time within a coaching role in the Administration SBR, which focuses on OneFS Webui, SupportIQ, Security/Hardening, API, Virtualization, IIQ, cluster event management, SNMP/SMTP, node adds, upgrades, and anti-virus. | |
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RobertoAraujo1
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June 16th, 2014 07:00
This discussion is now open for questions. We look forward to a lively and informative event.
Best regards,
Roberto
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June 16th, 2014 08:00
I would highly suggest you to read the release notes of the Node or Drive firmware package, as they would include wording on the impact of the operation. For example for Node Firmware 9.0.1 Release Note, it has the following section:
Upgrade considerations
Before you begin a firmware upgrade, it is important to be aware of the impact the upgrade process will have on cluster operations. A firmware update takes approximately 10 minutes per node. Each node is updated individually, and is automatically restarted when the update is complete. A cluster-wide firmware update has the potential to be disruptive for a significant period
of time if the cluster includes many nodes.
You can find all the release notes from the following link:
https://support.emc.com/search/?text=Firmware&product_id=15204
and here are some other useful links:
OneFS Process and Planning Guide - https://support.emc.com/docu50235
OneFS Release Notes - https://support.emc.com/search/?text=Release%20Notes&product_id=15204
Node and Drive Firmware - https://support.emc.com/search/?text=Firmware&product_id=15204
Patch information - https://support.emc.com/search/?text=Patches&product_id=15204
Thanks. Ivan Tang
JBalentine
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June 16th, 2014 08:00
What are some of the potential impacts to an enterprise when performing node and drive firmware updates?
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June 17th, 2014 10:00
Q1. any plans to incorporate drive firmware into OneFS upgrade so i don't have two reboot each node twice ?
Q2. we have had multiple upgrades where during OneFS upgrade a node is refusing to give up its up address (IP pool with dynamic allocation) and refuses to shutdown. We end up putting the botton on the back of the node to cycle it in the mean time IP that belong to that node are not available. (again not static pool by dynamic).
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June 17th, 2014 15:00
I am not certain there is any plan to incorporate firmware upgrade into the OneFS upgrade process. The firmware upgrade process is a delicate process, so it is best to be carried out separate from other delicate operations such as OneFS upgrade. I will check to see if there is any future plan for such incorporation and let you know when I find out more.
For the issue of not able to reboot node during upgrade, a case should be filed with Global Service so proper action can be taken to address the problem. Thank you for bring this to our attention. Ivan Tang
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June 17th, 2014 18:00
i had tickets open for the issue, which happen 4 times by the way. In the end 2 nodes were replaced as these were the two that always locked up. We are doing firmware upgrade in a month so we'll see if the issue was truly resolved.
Out of family upgrades are not going to require complete outage anytime soon ?
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June 18th, 2014 10:00
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Regarding out of family upgrades: I do know that this is something we are looking at for future releases. I do not have any ETA for this as of yet.
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June 18th, 2014 11:00
Gary,
unfortunately i have heard "looking at for future releases" for the last 3 years that we have been a customer.
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June 18th, 2014 12:00
I completely understand, this would definitely be a big win for Isilon and our customers, unfortunately I have limited visibility to product development.
From what I understand it will start with OneFS 7.1.x to the 7.2.x release and will not apply to anything pre 7.1, I must stress that there is nothing official from EMC Isilon and this is definitely subject to change.