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

NEWNETAPP987
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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Upgrade advisor reported that I have 334 disks of Model x480_HMKPE04TSDB  that have outdated firmware.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,

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JGPSHNTAP
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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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