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Dell PowerStore X model Software Upgrade Guide

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Upgrade the PowerStoreOS on the cluster (PowerStoreOS 1.0.x to 2.0.x)

Use PowerStore Manager to perform a PowerStoreOS upgrade.

Prerequisites

Perform a final Pre-Upgrade Health Check before upgrading the PowerStoreOS on the PowerStore X model cluster.

About this task

Perform the following steps to upgrade the PowerStoreOS on the appliances of the cluster:

Steps

  1. If you installed a Pre-Upgrade package or upgraded the node firmware, but you were not required to perform ESXi host updates, you must reboot the internal nodes on the cluster to apply the Pre-Upgrade package and firmware upgrades. Rebooting the nodes to apply the Pre-Upgrade package and firmware upgrade package takes approximately 35 to 60 minutes per node. To reboot the nodes of the cluster:
    1. Identify the primary and secondary nodes on the primary appliance of the cluster. See Minimizing internal ESXi host failover occurrences (PowerStoreOS 1.0.x to 2.0.x) for more information.
    2. In the vSphere Client, reboot the ESXi host on the secondary node. For instructions, see the PowerStore Power Down and Reboot Procedures Guide.
    3. If the ESXi host on the secondary node does not automatically exit maintenance mode after rebooting, manually exit maintenance mode on the secondary node.
    4. Repeat the previous steps for the ESXi host on the primary node.
    5. Repeat the previous steps on the other appliances in the cluster.
  2. Select the Settings icon, and then select Upgrades in the Cluster section.
  3. Select the PowerStoreOS upgrade package in the Software packages table, and select Upgrade.
    NOTE: The PowerStoreOS upgrade package is displayed as a Software Release package in the Software packages table.
    The PowerStoreOS upgrade takes approximately one hour to complete.

Results

The PowerStore X model cluster temporarily stops recording performance metrics when the primary node on the primary appliance reboots during the ESXi update. When the primary node on the primary appliance reboots, the primary node fails over to the secondary node and you are disconnected from PowerStore Manager. You can log back in to PowerStore Manager after the failover process is complete.

Next steps

Use the vSphere Client to manually rebalance the VMs in vCenter or allow VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to automatically rebalance the VMs .

When a new version of the PowerStoreOS is installed, the column layout settings in PowerStore Manager tables reset to their default layout. Changes to the column layout settings in PowerStore Manager do not persist when the PowerStoreOS is upgraded.

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