Re: Upgrade thoughts: 8.3 -> 9.1 -> 9.3
tmac <[email protected]>
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I did the same thing a few ago and then gave myself the forehead slap after I found out. The Split/Merge is so quick and easy. I know what a PITA it was to do what you did! --tmac *Tim McCarthy, **Principal Consultant* *Proud Member of the #NetAppATeam <https://twitter.com/NetAppATeam>* *I Blog at TMACsRack <https://tmacsrack.wordpress.com/>* On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 8:44 PM tmac <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh No! > > You should have asked! > > There is a broadcast-domain merge and a broadcast-domain Split for just > such these occasions! > > --tmac > > *Tim McCarthy, **Principal Consultant* > > *Proud Member of the #NetAppATeam <https://twitter.com/NetAppATeam>* > > *I Blog at TMACsRack <https://tmacsrack.wordpress.com/>* > > > > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 8:37 PM John Stoffel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Well, just to let you all know that the upgrade went great, and I even >> did the CN1610 cluster switch upgrade as well, even though the version >> I was on was still supported with 9.3P17. >> >> The only real gotcha that hit me was having both regular and e0M ports >> in the same broadcast domain, which since the node_management ports >> were on e0M made it a *pain* in the ass to get them moved out. >> >> I basically had to do: >> >> - create new node_mgmt interface on another VLAN port. >> - delete the one I really wnated, >> - remove the e0M port from the broadcast-domain >> - create a new new failover group and add e0M to it >> - recreate a new node management lif using e0M again >> - delete other temp lif. >> >> Across four nodes, this sucked, especially to figure out. Then I >> found the "broadcast-domain split " command, which might have made >> this all oh so much easier. >> >> Anyway, the actual upgrade went great, no outage for the VMs still on >> the ESX cluster, etc. Very very nice. Next time I ask them if I can >> just do this during the day instead. LOL! >> >> John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Toasters mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters >> > _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list [email protected] http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters