File and Object Storage

Hello Apidesh,

Yes, you can perform an online upgrade of your 3 node IBM Storage Scale cluster to 5.2.x using the installation toolkit, with one node upgraded at a time, without taking down the entire cluster.

Check this:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.2.3?topic=toolkit-performing-online-upgrade-by-using-installation

Best,

Ankita

Yes, you can perform an online rolling upgrade of your 3 node IBM Storage Scale cluster to 5.2.x using the installation toolkit, with one node upgraded at a time, without taking down the entire cluster.

Please check this:
IBM Doc: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.2.3?topic=toolkit-performing-online-upgrade-by-using-installation

Blog: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/sujeet-jha1/2024/09/25/online-upgrade-of-ibm-storage-scale-using-ansible

Yes you can perform an online rolling upgrade of your 3 node IBM Storage Scale cluster to 5.2.x using the installation toolkit, with one node upgraded at a time, without taking down the entire cluster.

Please check this:
IBM Doc: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.2.3?topic=toolkit-performing-online-upgrade-by-using-installation

Blog: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/sujeet-jha1/2024/09/25/online-upgrade-of-ibm-storage-scale-using-ansible

Hi, you deploy the toolkit on one node and it will upgrade all 3 nodes, one node at a time. If you have cluster export services enabled like SMB, then the upgrade is not quite concurrent. There is a short downtime during upgrade for the SMB and NFS stack.

Hallo Apidesh,
toolkit is working as expected:
cd /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.2.3.2/ansible-toolkit/
./spectrumscale setup -s <ip of this node>
./spectrumscale config populate -N <node-name>
./spectrumscale upgrade precheck
./spectrumscale upgrade run