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Upgrade Geosynchrony on orphaned Geocluster
In our labs in CA and NY we had originally configured a VS2 Geocluster running Geosynchrony 5.1. The cluster was powered down for a period of time and the CA cluster (cluster-1) was repurposed. I am left with the task of upgrading the remaining NY cluster (cluster-2) to 5.4.1.003. No problems upgrading the management server, however when I attempt to install the firmware package to complete the upgrade, the ndu pre-check attempts to check the status of the remote cluster (cluster-1) and fails with:
"Could not find an active meta-volume at cluster cluster-1" and "Failed to retrieve remote management server version."
Does anyone know a workaround in lieu of resetting to factory defaults and rebuilding as a Local cluster as I am in a pinch to get this done ASAP. I've tried every ndu start skip parameter that is documented, but no luck.
Thanks!
MikeCram
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December 16th, 2015 08:00
My best answer here is to open an SR.
Depending on the configuration that was implemented prior to shutting down cluster, there may be globally visible objects such as distributed consistency groups, distributed devices and globally visible local devices which require communications between both clusters to break down in a graceful manner. This is no longer an option.
The next best option may be to do a system reset. Prior to configuring it, do the ndu pre-config upgrade.
cconnolly1
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December 16th, 2015 18:00
Thanks Mike and appreciate the response! Just to close the loop on this, we ended up doing a meta-volume cleanup and system-reset as this was the only workaround. We were then able to apply the upgrade and configure as a local cluster. Additionally, we had to cleanup some residual entries for cluster-2 with EMC Support's help based on https://support.emc.com/kb/84969.
MikeCram
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December 17th, 2015 10:00
Thank you for the update and I'm happy you were able to resolve this!