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Installing security updates as per ActiveIQ suggestions. What is the potential disruption?

Nazareth-College
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Hi,

We are new to NetApp, and this is our first post in these forums. I did open a ticket with support asking this same question, but thought it would be worth while to reach out to the NetApp community as well. 

 

Our ActiveIQ suggestions are to install 4 security updates:

NTAP-20230214-0002
NTAP-20230110-0006
NTAP-20221209-0010
NTAP-20221209-0009

 

All 4 patches are indicated as "Potentially Non-disruptive."

We have two nodes in our AFF-A250 disk shelf, and 12 disks. 

This serves as our vSphere datastore, and since this will be the first time we apply any kind of patch or upgrade since we deployed the array, we are concerned that our vSphere environment will be impacted during the upgrade. 

 

From what I understand, each node will be upgraded separately, while the other node serves out storage, so this should not impact our vSphere environment. From your experience, is this a safe operation, or should we plan an outage window for our vSphere datastore?

 

Thanks.

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EWILTS_SAS
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The remediation is to upgrade ONTAP.  This is a relatively routine operation you should become comfortable doing as part of a NetApp storage administrator role.

If your NetApp cluster is properly configured, this is a non-disruptive operation that you can do during the middle of the business day if you so choose. 

You should run the Upgrade Advisor on NetApp's web site and it will spit out a nice PDF report telling you exactly what you need to do.  Make sure you read each and every warning and follow the steps as they're outlined.  Do not attempt to take shortcuts.

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EWILTS_SAS
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The remediation is to upgrade ONTAP.  This is a relatively routine operation you should become comfortable doing as part of a NetApp storage administrator role.

If your NetApp cluster is properly configured, this is a non-disruptive operation that you can do during the middle of the business day if you so choose. 

You should run the Upgrade Advisor on NetApp's web site and it will spit out a nice PDF report telling you exactly what you need to do.  Make sure you read each and every warning and follow the steps as they're outlined.  Do not attempt to take shortcuts.

Ontapforrum
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It is always safe & recommended practice to have a 'Maintenance Window', rather than fire-fighting if things don't go according to plan.

 

Every environment could be unique, and even though you can trust NDO (Non-disruptive Operations) ONTAP upgrade, one is never 100% sure if it will be a smooth ride. No matter how small or big is the environment, it is safe to schedule a 'Maintenance Window' to perform these changes. Having a 'Maintenance Window', gives you time to deal with unexpected events that are very much possible for any upgrades (Including ONTAP). Having a maintenance window allows you to coordinate with NetApp support in case you have to escalate the call (unresolvable events) before the maintenance window runs-out. This is just from the NetApp side, you will need sometime to quickly access the Host-Side environment (Post upgrade), if the datastores are up and VMs are still up and running and if there are any Major/Minor incidents been reported post upgrade. It just gives you a peace of mind, more so b'cos you mentioned your team is "new to NetApp".

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