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

tmac <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.netapp
Message-ID <CAL9X-_HSy3nrEPfAe7ey9wAHvw87rz8bu5US=hmm4mGU3TLE-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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
>>
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