B) DAY OF UPGRADE

1. PRE-UPGRADE

 Load must be below 50% at the time of upgrade.

Run statcpu and statport and check utilisation is below 50%
 If possible suspended tasks that would cause a heavy load eg
backups
 Stop AO, DO, and RC tasks before the upgrade. Plus stop anything
else that interacts with the system such as scripts

 Stop system reporter. Stop windows service – 3Par System Reporter

Sampler Service
 Showtask – and check for any DO activity
 Stop any software that directly interact with the SAN e.g. Recovery
Manager, scripts etc.
 Stop RC
 Check no one is logged in showuserconn
 Checkhealth again. checkhealth -svc detail performs a full health
check on the system
 checkupgrade to verify if the system is ready to undergo an online
upgrade.
 Check current connectivity status of the hosts showhost -pathsum
 All upgrades until after 3.1.3 are performed by HP, so next HP should
install the update for you.
2. POST UPGRADE

 Check version is as expected showversion –a -b

 Verify connectivity of hosts showhost –pathsum, plus check

monitoring software attached hosts etc. for any potential issues
 Restart suspended tasks setsched -resume_all . Check schedules
running again showsched
 Change Windows 2008 and 2012 to host persona 15 sethost –
persona 15 servername
 Remove default CPG. removecpg
 Restart system reporter windows service (3Par System Reporter
Sampler Service) plus any other software you stopped such as
Recovery Manager
 Resume backups and any other systems you suspended to reduce
the load on the SAN
 Check for new CLI and management console from FTP supplied by
HP or software depot. Check compatibility in SPOCK
 Plus if you use any other 3Par software such as Recovery manager
VSS provider etc check in the release notes for the latest version and
then download via supplied FTP link from HP or from the software
depot