Disk firmware upgrade --Will it require 14 hours downtime for users?

NEWNETAPP987 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:15:04 GMT

Hi,

I am relatively new to NetApp, although very experienced on other arrays.

I need to upgrade a 6290 from 8.1.2 7 mode to 8.2.2 P2 7 mode.

Upgrade advisor reported that I have 334 disks of Model x480_HMKPE04TSDB that have outdated firmware.

Upgrade advisor also recommended that I manually download the disk firmware and update it manually. It was stated this was a prerequisite for ndu upgrades.

Then I read in another document that each disk would be offline for 2.5 minutes when the disk firmware updated. For 334 drives, it would take 835 minutes or 14 hours.

I can't have my users offline on this array for 14 hours.

I must not understand this correctly.

Can someone please help me understand how to upgrade the disk firmware on 334 drives without user downtime of 14 hours?

Thanks,

Re: Disk firmware upgrade --Will it require 14 hours downtime for users?

JGPSHNTAP — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:22:42 GMT

Disk upgrades are all NDU, there is no downtime. You should however do this at a low I/O time to the system.

Download all.zip to the software folder - software install all.zip.

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