Who's on FLARE 32?

I have performed block updates on a number of 5300's and a 5500 to 05.32.000.5.006 and 011 with no problems.

However, this will only be a problem if you are running 5.31.000.5.012 or older and is only an issue if you are running auto-tiering configurations.

Workaround if you are running 5.31.000.5.012 or later is to first upgrade to 5.31.000.5.726. Then stop data relocation on any existing pools that is running and then disable auto-tiering. Finally, you can upgrade to 05.32.00.011 with no issues.

Once the update is complete, you can re-enable auto-tiering and start relocation. Complete details can be found in the primus link below.

Hope this helps.

http://knowledgebase.emc.com/emcice/documentDisplay.do;jsessionid=3FD4105CA058A1496BEF8480026E0691?docType=1006&clusterName=DefaultCluster&resultType=5002&groupId=1&page=&docProp=$solution_id&docPropValue=emc299619&passedTitle=null

what is the primus solution, the link does not work for me.

Thanks

emc299619

Thank you

FYI - We've had to postpone the deployment of FLARE32 because EMC has found an issue with customers using Recoverpoint. 

Don't upgrade to 32 until after january 2013. There are several bugs that are being addressed and wont be available until SP1 comes out for it. Trust me. we found out the hard way.

We upgraded 2 arrays both 7500's. One of them has had 2 issues.

1. When trying to register wwn's or work within the initiators screen...info loading hangs for 5-10 minutes. Once loaded any changes will force java to eat cpu and Unisphere will be unrecoverable. Had to work w/ SME's at EMC to design an off-array client not yet accessable to public to fix the issue. Basically removing all the new code and reverting to old 31 code for the "host connnectivity" process. The fix is supposed to be out in bundle Jan 2013.

2. We have had SP's randomly reboot. bug check code E115801D. We are still waiting on engineering to see what that code means. It didn just bring down 1 SP... it brought down the other SP's connections for 9 drives. (dont ask me how)

can you be more specific, i have two arrays on 32 already.

Does anyone know if a rollback from 32 to 31 is an possibility with the VNX?  I'm hearing conflicting information about this. 

I proposed that as a possible solution. They stated the changes in the code are too great and a rollback is not something to even consider.

thx

Hi Spindleguy

I have a vnx 5200 and I need to re-image it to flare 32 but as I'm a new comer can u share me steps to re-image vnx and boot image recovery .

Thanks

Hamid