Re: Need to quickly downgrade from 9.5 to 8.2.4

I do not think you can come back to 9.5 to 8.2.4 as far as on the head OS
is concerned. I remember to upgrade the head from 8.2.4 there are two or
three inbetween versions we have to go to reach to 9.5. I might be wrong ,
i would also like to know.

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 5:42 PM Tony Bar <[email protected]> wrote:

> 7mtt is really the way to go in this situation.   7mtt is really only
> creating and managing the schedules for the SnapMirror TDP copy jobs from
> the 8.1.4P10+> destination cluster system.   I’m pretty sure that it
> supports migrating from any 7-mode system runnin 8.1.4P10 or higher (up to
> 8.2.4P*X*) to any current GA release of ONTAP CMode (and there are tricks
> to make it work with newer, non-GA releases too (9.6RC1) which NetApp
> support can tell you about if you open a case with them (sorry, not going
> to disclose this on an open forum.)
>
> If you’re looking for a tertiary copy “just in case” something happens
> when you’re physically moving components have you considered setting up a
> clustered volumes ONTAP with AWS/Azure when you’re done with the cluster
> upgrade in the interim while the DR equipment is en-route?
>
> *Anthony Bar*
>
> 650.207.5368
>
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>
>  *Berkeley Communications*
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> On Jul 5, 2019, at 3:03 PM, Carolyn Chambers <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Source is already 7mtt’d but shipping a 7 mode system and need a copy we
> can run from.
>
> Concerned that if the 7mode system does not make the move well we would
> have to manually finish 7mtt.
>
> Thanks,
> Carolyn
>
> 972.578.2708
>
> On Jul 5, 2019, at 4:37 PM, Tim McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Um... Use 7-mode transition tool from the support site
>
> It allows one way TDP mirrors from 7-mode to any ONTAP release up to 9.5
>
> It will not work with 9.6
>
> No need to downgrade. Honestly to do that is a ton of work and not all
> platforms can go back that far anyway.
>
> Your NetApp sales team really should have informed you about 7MTT.
>
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] on behalf of Carolyn Chambers <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 5, 2019 9:57 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Need to quickly downgrade from 9.5 to 8.2.4
>
> Hello,
>
> We are the middle of move planning and need to snapmirror some 7 Mode
> data.
>
> The gear we have for the destination is from the factory with 9.5.
>
> The usual netboot is throwing errors.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Carolyn
>
> 972.578.2708
>
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