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AFF200 Headupgrade

thomas382
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Hello;

 

We want to upgrade our AFF200, Dualhead, is there an Best Practice Procedure or a Manual you could recommend?

Many Thanks, Thomas

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SpindleNinja
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There's a lot more to it than just putting in the new controllers. Most customers will get Partner or NetApp PS for the headswap.    

 

Edit:  there are two ways to do "upgrade controllers".     There's the "head swap" part, which is moving disks to a new controller pair;   or Volume move, which is taking a 2 node cluster and making it a 4 node cluster temporary and moving over the volumes. and converting it back to a 2 node cluster.   

 

I've not ever done a head swap with internal disks honestly,  those systems i've always moved using the vol move method.  

 

For the A200 to A220,  I don't think you'd be moving the controllers, you'd be moving the disks in to a A220 chassis/controller.  

 

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Mjizzini
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thomas382
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Thanks Mjizzini,

I already upgraded to the newest Ontap Version, can i finde a Manual for the Head upgrade from AFF200 to AFF220?

Many Thanks, Thomas

SpindleNinja
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thomas382
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Thanks SpindleNinja;

Do i understand you right

When i only change the AFF200 Controllers to AFF220 Controllers, we keep the Shelf and  HDDs, after reload/takeover/giveback the old system didn't came up with the same Settings?

Do i need to add them as additional Nodes like in the Manual?

Thanks, Thomas

 

 

SpindleNinja
4,287 Views

There's a lot more to it than just putting in the new controllers. Most customers will get Partner or NetApp PS for the headswap.    

 

Edit:  there are two ways to do "upgrade controllers".     There's the "head swap" part, which is moving disks to a new controller pair;   or Volume move, which is taking a 2 node cluster and making it a 4 node cluster temporary and moving over the volumes. and converting it back to a 2 node cluster.   

 

I've not ever done a head swap with internal disks honestly,  those systems i've always moved using the vol move method.  

 

For the A200 to A220,  I don't think you'd be moving the controllers, you'd be moving the disks in to a A220 chassis/controller.  

 

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