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How to copy ontap images between nodes in a cluster?

elic_co — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:23:12 GMT

Hey everyone,

I have a new 2-node cluster of FAS2750 and for the meantime only one of the nodes is connected to the management network.

I was able to pull the ontap image to this node only obviously but I want to save time and upgrade both of the nodes.

is there some way to copy the image to the second node’s /etc/software?

I tried ndmpcopy but it failed to run on mroot volumes.

thanks in advance 🙂

Re: How to copy ontap images between nodes in a cluster?

TMACMD — Sat, 29 May 2021 12:00:58 GMT

Use the cli

first get the image from the node with the network:

cluster image package get -package url|file

after that finishes start the upgrade:

cluster image update -version 9(tab to get available version)

this should work. It may complain and fail due to the node LIF being down. You may need to use the -ignore-validation-warning flag to bypass any issues. Run without the flag first to be sure

use the man pages for command assistance

man cluster image get

man cluster image update

Re: How to copy ontap images between nodes in a cluster?

elic_co — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 05:46:48 GMT

Hey, thank you very much. It worked like a charm.

Do you have an idea on how to achieve the same thing but with the SP firmware file? I usually would run “system node image get”… but I can only download it to node 1, how can I pass it to /etc/software of node 2?

thanks! 🙂