Re: Upgrade thoughts: 8.3 -> 9.1 -> 9.3

John,

You will be fine in performing that upgrade from 9.1P19 to 9.3P17
(I’d recommend going to the latest 9.3P18 release). Regarding the
bug around the security certificates, you need to be at 9.1P14 or higher
prior to performing the upgrade to 9.3.

There are some other items that I would recommend that you check in your
environment. I believe I saw in another email reply the note about
Fastpath. Definitely do your homework on that one.

Also, and this is very important, make sure that your SP firmware is up to
date for the releases that you are on/going to. I ran into this issue 3
times last week during an upgrade where the SP firmware wasn’t up to date
and the controllers, when rebooting during the ONTAP upgrade, halted and
returned to the loader prompt with the error "This platform is not
supported in this release”.

I was able to resolve it via the SP command by performing a “dirty
shutdown” of that node and powering it back up and then performing a SP
reboot. There is a NetApp KB article, 1009154, that is related (talks about
a different platform) but the fix resolves this.

Also, I *highly* recommend updating all disk/shelf firmwares and
qualification files ahead of the game (at least 24 hours).

Good luck and HTH

Regards,
André M. Clark

On March 3, 2020 at 16:41:53, Stoffel John ([email protected]) wrote:


Guys,

We're getting ready to ugprade our 4 node 8060 cluster from 8.3.2P9 to
9.1P19 and then onto 9.3P17, all this weekend. My only real concern
is the upgrade from 9.1 to 9.3, which lists a major warning for bug
1250500:

Expired truststore security certificates causing upgrade and
new installation failures.

Unfortunately, I can't run an upgrade advisor report for my cluster
going from 9.1P19 to 9.3P17, because I'm not yet running 9.1, and it
can take upto a week for the autosupport data to get pushed to Upgrade
Advisor. Sigh...

Has anyone run into this issue when doing the 9.1 -> 9.3 upgrade with
the expired certificate? Otherwise, it all looks good, my cluster
switches are supported at their current version, etc.

John
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