PowerScale: How To Avoid Solidigm P5316 Unlock Issues During Upgrades

Summary: Solidigm P5316 unlock issue affects Self-Encrypting Drives on PowerScale platforms, requiring unlock before upgrade, impacting nodes with 15 and 30TB drives.

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Instructions

The permanent fix for this issue is included in Drive Support Package (DSP) 1.59 and above. If you install the updated drive firmware, the drives will not have the drive unlock issue.

Upgrading with Solidigm P5316 Drives

 

OneFS Upgrade

Perform the upgrade in a rolling manner, one node at a time:

  • Start the upgrade on the first node: 
    isi upgrade cluster start --install-image= --node= --parallel
  • Check the drive status on the upgraded node: 
    isi devices drive list --node-lnn=
  • If any drives show a SED_ERROR state, stop immediately and contact support quoting this knowledge base document.
  • If all drives are HEALTHY, upgrade the next node: 
    isi upgrade add nodes --nodes=
  • Repeat the process for each node with P5316 drives
  • After all nodes with P5316 drives are upgraded, run: 
    isi upgrade add-remaining-nodes

Node Firmware Upgrade

Perform the upgrade in a rolling manner, one node at a time:

  • Start the upgrade on the first node: 
    isi upgrade cluster firmware start --fw-pkg= --nodes-to-upgrade= --parallel
  • Check the drive status on the upgraded node: 
    isi devices drive list --node-lnn=
  • If any drives report SED_ERROR, stop and contact support immediately.
  • If the drives are reported as HEALTHY, upgrade the next node.  Repeat the process for each node with P5316 drives
  • After all nodes with P5316 drives are upgraded, run: 
    isi upgrade cluster firmware start --fw-pkg= --nodes-to-upgrade= --parallel

Drive Firmware Upgrade

If the cluster is running OneFS 9.5.1.4, 9.7.1.8, 9.10.1.3 or 9.12+ you can proceed as normal with the drive firmware upgrade.
 

If you are running any other version of OneFS, proceed with the following steps:

Perform the upgrade in a rolling manner, one drive at a time:

  • Get the list of drives to update firmware: 
    isi devices drive firmware list --node-lnn=
  • Upgrade the drive firmware, one drive at a time: 
    isi devices drive firmware update start --node-lnn= --bay= --force
  • Monitor the upgrade progress: 
    isi devices drive firmware update view --node-lnn=
  • Check the drive status: 
    isi devices drive list --node-lnn=
  • If any drives show a SED_ERROR message, stop immediately and contact support for assistance.
  • If the drives all show HEALTHY, upgrade the remaining drives: 
    isi devices drive firmware update start --node-lnn= --bay=all

Affected Products

PowerScale OneFS
Article Properties
Article Number: 000350946
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 10 Dec 2025
Version:  3
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