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NetApp Firmware Update (Service Processor)
Before upgrading to ONTAP 8.1.2 we are trying to update all the firmware. According to the Upgrade Advisor Plan, it says our current Service Processor version is 2.1, and recommends we upgrade to 2.1.1. The NetApp support site gives me to options to do the update, either via the Service Processor Command Line Interface or Data ONTAP Command Line Interface.
I'm not sure which ones which, and whether we need to download it from somewhere. Is it even necessary. So far we've been doing everything via SSH. Is this update somehow different?
One other question that the Upgrade Advisor mentions: "The VLD protocol is licensed on this node and ONTAP 8.1.2 does not support VLDs. If VLDs exist on this system, SnapDrive must be upgraded to at least version 3 and the VLDs must be converted to iSCSI LUNs."
What are VLDs?
Since we only use NFS volumes, does this apply to us or can we ignore it?
I'm not sure which ones which, and whether we need to download it from somewhere. Is it even necessary. So far we've been doing everything via SSH. Is this update somehow different?
One other question that the Upgrade Advisor mentions: "The VLD protocol is licensed on this node and ONTAP 8.1.2 does not support VLDs. If VLDs exist on this system, SnapDrive must be upgraded to at least version 3 and the VLDs must be converted to iSCSI LUNs."
What are VLDs?
Since we only use NFS volumes, does this apply to us or can we ignore it?
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you don't unzip
download from now.netapp.com the appropriate firmware (.zip) for your hardware then copy it on the \\filer\C$\etc\software (using CIFS administrative share)
From CLI you can do this statement:
software list (to view the software in /etc/software)
software install <firmware_file>
sp update (then SP reboot)
after sp reboots check sp status
sp status
download from now.netapp.com the appropriate firmware (.zip) for your hardware then copy it on the \\filer\C$\etc\software (using CIFS administrative share)
From CLI you can do this statement:
software list (to view the software in /etc/software)
software install <firmware_file>
sp update (then SP reboot)
after sp reboots check sp status
sp status
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Sorry for the dumb questions, but I'm not finding a "software" directory in etc. I'm assuming it's OK to go ahead and create it?
if it's not under /etc/ then yes you can create it.
If you run 'software list' in ONTAP, it will create the software directory if I'd does not exist.
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How long does "sp update" usually take?
don't remember off hand but shouldn't be too long
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Does that mean not to extract the files from filename.zip and just upload to the filer as is (zipped format)?