Is it possible to upgrade a simulator from one version to another?

           

It is possible to upgrade but this procedure is designed for experts only. If you are unfamiliar with Filer upgrades or are new to the simulator then we recommend that you delete your existing simulator and instead install a new simulator vs. performing an upgrade.

  1. Shut down and backup your existing simulator.
  2. From the NOW website go into the Download Software portion of the site, choose Data ONTAP for an Intel based Filer (currently the F8xx and FAS9xx ranges)
  3. Select the correct version of ONTAP that the simulator will be running. It must be the version that the simulator was designed for. E.g. if the simulator is for version 6.4.1 then you should choose 6.4.1.
  4. Download the system files either for Windows or UNIX as appropriate.
  5. Start your simulator. As per a normal Filer mount/map a network drive to the root volume and extract the system files. If you run out of disk space then shut down the simulator and add an extra disk to add more space. See the Configuration of the Simulator for more details whilst remembering that you can add any size disk into an existing volume.
  6. Shut down the simulator.
  7. From the CD or extracted tar image of the new version start the setup.sh script with the -x option to perform the upgrade. 
    8.   [root@localhost /root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
  [root@localhost /root]# cd /mnt/cdrom
  [root@localhost cdrom]# ./setup.sh -x

  Script version X (Jul 2003)
      Allowing upgrades
  Where to install to? [/sim]: /sim
  It appears that a simulator is already installed in /sim
  The existing simulator is running ONTAP version: 6.4 and script VersionString=”Script version A (Jul 2003)”
  The new simulator will run ONTAP version: 6.4.1 and script VersionString=”Script version X (Jul 2003)”
  Perform an upgrade of the simulator? [no]: yes
  Unpacking sim.tgz to /sim
  Upgrade complete. Running /sim/setup.sh to allow you to configure any new options.

  8. Start your new simulator and observe that it is running the new version of ONTAP.