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Upgrading Your Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Software and Firmware 9-3
Preparing the SAN for an Upgrade
NOTE: Perform this procedure when all users have closed their application programs
and have logged off the system.
Before running all SAN upgrades, you must perform the following steps:
1. Prepare the SAN for an upgrade by backing up all data on the SAN storage sys-
tems to tape media or media that can be taken off line. Do not simply back up
your data by copying it from one SAN storage device to another. Ensure that both
the backup job and the backup operator have the authority to back up all of the
data. You should use the verify feature of your backup software to verify that the
files and directories counts are correct as reported by the backup job. You may
want to make a second copy of your data for off-site storage.
2. Close all application programs, including all Dell OpenManage programs, and
stop all Dell OpenManage services including:
• Dell OpenManage Data Event Monitor
• Dell OpenManage Data Agent
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
NOTE: When you stop SNMP, you may see indicators advising that other ser-
vices need to be stopped. Stop all other services of which you are advised.
3. If you are running Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) clusters, stop the cluster ser-
vices on both cluster servers.
4. Ensure that all hard-disk drive I/O activity on the SAN has stopped.
Upgrading Software on Windows NT and
Windows 2000
The following sections describe how to install the software upgrade from the latest
version of the
Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Utilities CD
or
Dell PowerVault Fibre
Channel CD
onto Windows NT or Windows 2000 systems.
Before You Install the Software Upgrade on Windows NT
or Windows 2000
NOTICES: To save your Storage Consolidation configuration, you must not
uninstall Storage Consolidation before executing the installation of the new
version of the software. Performing an uninstall will result in the loss of the
Storage Consolidation configuration for the server.
Perform this procedure when all users have closed their application pro-
grams and have logged off the system you will be updating.