- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Initial configuration and setup
- Performing common tasks
- Displaying system information at a glance
- Managing block storage
- Protection domains
- Fault sets
- Storage data servers
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Devices
- Volumes
- NVMe targets
- Hosts
- Managing file storage
- Overview of configuring NAS servers
- About file system storage
- File protection
- Create a protection policy
- Create snapshot rules
- Create a snapshot
- Assign a protection policy to a file system
- Unassign a protection policy
- Modify a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Modify a snapshot rule
- Delete a snapshot rule
- Refresh a file system using snapshot
- Restore a file system from a snapshot
- Protecting a block storage environment
- Snapshots
- Create snapshots
- Overwrite volume content from a snapshot
- Set bandwidth and IOPS limits for snapshots
- Lock and unlock snapshots
- Delete snapshots
- Map snapshots
- Unmap snapshots
- Increase the size of a snapshot
- Migrate a snapshot vTree
- Pause snapshot vTree migration
- Roll back snapshot vTree migration
- Set snapshot vTree migration priority
- Snapshot policies
- Remote protection
- Extract and upload certificates
- Journal capacity
- Add a peer system
- Restart the replication cluster
- SDRs
- Replication consistency group
- Replication direction and mapping
- Create an RCG
- Map RCG target volumes to hosts
- Unmap a host from RCG target volumes
- Set the target to inconsistent mode
- Set the target to consistent mode
- Modify RPO
- Add a replication pair to an RCG
- Pause replication for an RCG
- Resume replication for an RCG
- Create a snapshot of an RCG volume
- Add an RCG snapshot policy
- Perform a failover
- Reverse replication
- Restore replication
- Test Failover
- Stop a failover test
- Freeze an RCG
- Unfreeze an RCG
- Activate an RCG
- Terminate replication in an RCG
- Delete an RCG
- Pause creation of an initial copy
- Resume creation of initial copy
- Set copying priority
- Unpair from RCG
- Snapshots
- Performing lifecycle operations for a resource group
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Basic tasks
- Deploying a resource group
- Adding an existing resource group
- Updating a resource group with new firmware and software
- Viewing a compliance report
- Entering and exiting service mode
- Replacing a drive
- Replacing NVDIMM node or battery
- Reconfiguring MDM roles
- Migrating vCLS VMs to shared storage
- Adding components to a resource group
- Resize a volume
- Removing resources from a resource group
- Adding NVMe/TCP storage access
- Additional resource group management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Preparing a template for a resource group deployment
- Basic tasks
- Additional template management tasks
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Managing resources
- Basic tasks
- Additional resource management tasks
- Monitoring events and alerts
- Configuring system settings
- User management
- Repositories
- Getting started
- Networking
- Events and alerts
- License management
- Security
- Serviceability
- Software upgrade
- PowerFlex Manager user interface reference
- Additional administration activities
- Retrieving logs for the PowerFlex nodes
- Retrieving logs for PowerFlex components
- Retrieving additional PowerFlex logs
- Enabling audit logging
- Managing storage devices using CloudLink
- Understanding NVMe over TCP load balancing
- Managing NAS server configuration
- Migrating to NVMe/TCP on ESXi
Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Administration Guide
Upgrading a PowerFlex gateway
About this task
You can update the firmware and software of a PowerFlex gateway from the Resources page.
Upgrading the PowerFlex gateway is a two-step process. When you upgrade the PowerFlex gateway for a deployed resource group from the Resources page, PowerFlex Manager upgrades the PowerFlex gateway version. Then it automatically upgrades all the SDSs for all the resource groups that are tied to the Gateway.
Any nodes that require reconfiguration prior to an upgrade are shown in the Needs Attention section of the wizard. If you choose to reconfigure all the nodes, you can proceed with the upgrade process. If you select only a few of the nodes, PowerFlex Manager reconfigures these nodes, but does not proceed with the upgrade process until you have reconfigured the remaining nodes. You must reconfigure all the nodes before you can complete the upgrade process.
PowerFlex Manager does not allow you to downgrade the PowerFlex gateway.
NOTE:PowerFlex Manager requires the LIA password to be the same as the MDM cluster or
PowerFlex gateway admin password. If it is different, during the upgrade of
PowerFlex storage-only components using
PowerFlex Manager,
PowerFlex Manager will reset the LIA password to be the same as the MDM cluster or
PowerFlex gateway admin password.
CAUTION:Check the
Alerts page before performing the upgrade. Look for major and critical alerts related to
PowerFlex Block and File to be sure the MDM cluster is healthy before proceeding.
Steps
-
Choose the
PowerFlex gateway from the
Resources page.
You cannot upgrade more than one PowerFlex gateway at a time.
- Click Update Resources.
- On the Update Details page, check the Needs Attention section to see whether any of the nodes must be reconfigured before upgrade. Select any nodes that you want to reconfigure. To select all nodes, click the box to the left of SDS Name.
- Click Next.
-
On the
Summary page, choose
Allow PowerFlex Manager to perform non-disruptive updates now or
Schedule non-disruptive updates to run later.
Specify the type of update you want to perform by selecting one of the following options:
- Instant Maintenance Mode enables you to perform updates quickly. PowerFlex Manager does not migrate the data.
- Protected Maintenance Mode enables you to perform updates that require longer than 30 minutes in a safe and protected manner.
-
If you only selected a subset of the nodes for reconfiguration, confirm the reconfiguration by typing
RECONFIGURE NODES. Otherwise, confirm the update action by typing
UPDATE POWERFLEX.
If you reconfigured only a subset of the nodes, you must restart the wizard later to reconfigure the remaining nodes before you can complete the upgrade process.
- Click Finish.
- Go to the Resource Groups page to update any resource groups that are not in compliance with the new version of PowerFlex.
Next steps
The PowerFlex gateway upgrade process performs some health prechecks to confirm that the resource group is healthy before the upgrade. If the resource group is not healthy, the PowerFlex gateway upgrade is not successful.
After a successful upgrade, the PowerFlex gateway should be in compliance with the new target version. However, the nodes in the resource group may require additional maintenance. In this case, you must update any resource groups that are noncompliant from the Resource Groups page.
When you initiate a PowerFlex gateway update, PowerFlex Manager upgrades both the Gateway RPM and the software components that are non-compliant.
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