You must download the upgrade file to a service laptop before you upgrade your StorageGRID Webscale system. If your StorageGRID Webscale system is deployed on Linux hosts, you must also download the StorageGRID Webscale installation files.
Steps
- Go to the Software Download page on the NetApp Support Site.
- Sign in using the username and password for your NetApp account.
- Scroll to StorageGRID Webscale, select All Platforms, and click Go.
Note: Be sure to select StorageGRID Webscale, not StorageGRID.
- Select the StorageGRID Webscale release, and click View & Download.
- From the Software Download section of the page, click CONTINUE, and accept the End User License Agreement.
- Download the appropriate archive.
- If your StorageGRID Webscale system is deployed on Linux hosts, complete these steps before you start the upgrade.
- Download either the .tgz file or the .zip file for your Linux platform.
Note: Select the .zip file if you are running Windows on the service laptop.
| Linux platform |
Additional file (choose one) |
|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS |
- StorageGRID-Webscale-version-RPM-uniqueID.tgz
- StorageGRID-Webscale-version-RPM-uniqueID.zip
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| Ubuntu or Debian |
- StorageGRID-Webscale-version-DEB-uniqueID.tgz
- StorageGRID-Webscale-version-DEB-uniqueID.zip
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- Extract the RPM or DEB packages from the installation file.
- Install the RPM or DEB packages on all Linux hosts as described in "Installing StorageGRID Webscale host services" in the installation instructions for your Linux platform.
- For each containerized StorageGRID Webscale node on each Linux host, run the following commands in this order:
storagegrid node stop <node-name>
storagegrid node start <node-name>Make sure each node boots correctly before taking the next node down.