You must download the upgrade file to a service laptop before you upgrade your StorageGRID system. If your StorageGRID system is deployed on Linux hosts, you must also download the StorageGRID installation files.
Steps
- Go to the NetApp Downloads page for StorageGRID.
- Click the button for downloading the latest release, or select another version from the pull-down menu and click Go.
- Sign in using the username and password for your NetApp account.
- Read and accept the End User License Agreement.
The downloads page for the version you selected appears. The page contains columns for new installation files, upgrade files, and NAS Bridge.
- In the Upgrade column, select and download the upgrade archive for your platform.
- If your StorageGRID 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.zip
- StorageGRID-Webscale-version-RPM-uniqueID.tgz
|
| Ubuntu or Debian |
- StorageGRID-Webscale-version-DEB-uniqueID.zip
- StorageGRID-Webscale-version-DEB-uniqueID.tgz
|
- 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 host services" in the installation instructions for your Linux platform.
- For each containerized StorageGRID 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.