Dell EMC PowerProtect DDVE on Amazon Web Services 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide

Upgrade from M4 to M5 instance type

To benefit from performance improvements, you can upgrade an M4 instance type to the next generation M5 instance type.

1. To ensure a clean file system shutdown, run the system poweroff command.
2. From the AWS management console, change the instance type to one with the same or higher capacity.

   Capacity (TB)	vCPU #, memory (GiB)	M4 instance type	M5 instance type
   16	4, 16	m4.xlarge	m5.xlarge
   32	8, 32	m4.2xlarge	m5.2xlarge
   96	16, 64	m4.4xlarge	m5.4xlarge

   NOTE Alternatively, you can change the instance type with this command:

   aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id <instance-id> --instance-type "{\"Value\": \"<M5 instance type>\"}"

   For example:

   aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id i-03abf8df1da1bf061 --instance-type "{\"Value\": \"m5.4xlarge\"}"

3. Enable the ena attribute by using this AWS command:
   aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id <instance_id> --ena-support
4. To verify that ena support is enabled for the instance, run this AWS command:
   aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids <instance_id> --query "Reservations[].Instances[].EnaSupport"
5. From the AWS management console, power on the DDVE.
6. On the DDVE, verify that the system is up, and ensure that the file system status is enabled and running.
7. To confirm that the instance type is an M5 instance type, run the system vresource show current command: