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Key ONTAP concepts
Configure ONTAP
- Decide whether to use the ONTAP CLI for cluster setup
- Set up a cluster with the ONTAP CLI
- Configure All SAN Array Software
Upgrade cluster
- Upgrade Paths
- How do I plan my upgrade?
  - With Upgrade Advisor
  - Without Upgrade Advisor
- What should I verify before I upgrade?
- How do I get and install the upgrade software image?
- Which upgrade method should I use?
- What should I do after my upgrade?
Revert cluster
- Do I need technical support?
- What are the revert paths?
- What should I read before I revert?
  - Pre-reversion resources
  - Revert considerations
- What should I verify before I revert?
- What else should I check before I revert?
- How do I get and install the revert software image?
- Revert my cluster
- What should I do after reverting my cluster?
Network management
- View and manage your network
- Download network data for reporting
- Set up NAS path failover (ONTAP 9.8 and later)
  - Workflow NAS path failover
  - Get more information
- Set up NAS path failover (ONTAP 9.0-9.7 CLI)
  - Workflow NAS path failover
  - Get more information
- ONTAP 9 Networking Reference
High availability
- How hardware-assisted takeover works
- How automatic takeover and giveback works
- Automatic takeover commands
- Automatic giveback commands
- Manual takeover commands
- Manual giveback commands
- Testing takeover and giveback
- Commands for monitoring an HA pair
- Commands for enabling and disabling storage failover
SnapMirror Business Continuity
- Introduction
- Planning
- Manage SnapMirror for Business Continuity using System Manager
- Installation and setup using the ONTAP CLI
- Administration
- Troubleshooting
Provision SAN storage
- VMware datastores
- Linux servers
- Windows servers
- Create nested igroup
- Map igroup to multiple LUNs
- SnapMirror Business Continuity overview
Provision NVMe storage
- SUSE Linux
Provision NAS storage
- VMware datastores
- Home directories
- Linux servers
- Export policies
- Windows servers
- Both Windows and Linux
- Secure client access with Kerberos
- Provide client access with name services
- Large file systems with FlexGroups
- Manage directories and files
- Monitor volume usage with ONTAP File System Analytics
- Monitor NFS active clients
- Improve performance for multiple clients
- Enable NAS storage
Provision object storage
- Enable S3 server
- Provision buckets
- Add S3 users and groups
- Manage bucket access
- Manage storage VM access
Manage resources using quotas
- Limit resource use
Maximize security
- Multi-factor authentication
- Control administrator access
- Encrypt stored data (software)
- Encrypt stored data (hardware)
- Diagnose and correct file access issues
Protect data
- Create custom data protection policies
- Configure Snapshot copies
- Recover from Snapshot copies
- Prepare for mirroring and vaulting
- Configure mirrors and vaults
- Configure storage VM disaster recovery
- Serve data from a destination
- Resynchronize a protection relationship
- Restore a volume from an earlier Snapshot copy
- Restore to a new volume
- Reverse resynchronize a protection relationship
- Reactivate a source storage VM
- Resynchronize a destination storage VM
- Back up to the cloud
Extend to the cloud
- Add a connection to the cloud
- Tier data to the cloud
- Tier data to local bucket
- Create tiering object tags
- Enable inactive data reporting
- Back up data using the Cloud Backup Service
- Manage the connections to the Cloud Backup Service
View cluster performance
- Dashboard tour
- Identify hot objects
- Monitor cluster performance using System Manager
- Monitor cluster performance with Unified Manager
- Monitor cluster performance with Cloud Insights
Day-to-day administration
- Search, filter, and sort
- Enable new features
- Manage nodes
- View hardware configurations and determine problems
- View and submit support cases
- Manage MetroCluster sites
- Clone data
- Modify QoS
- Update firmware
- Manage storage
Rest API
- Rest log overview
- Access the REST API log
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Notices

Update ONTAP on MetroCluster clusters

05/13/2021 Contributors Download PDF of this page

This topic provides a high-level overview of the process for upgrading an ONTAP cluster from ONTAP 9.7 or higher to a later version of ONTAP 9 using the System Manager interface.

If you need information about any other ONTAP cluster upgrade scenario, go here.

You can use System Manager to upgrade both clusters in a MetroCluster configuration to a newer version of ONTAP. During the upgrade, the storage service remains online.

Before you start

Upload the ONTAP image using a local drive or from an HTTP server on both clusters of the MetroCluster configuration.

Steps

Log in to System Manager.
Select Cluster > Update.

The ONTAP Update window displays a list of images that are available to upload.
Hover over any image name that you do NOT want to upload, and click the trash can icon.
Select the radio button next to the image name that you want to update, and click Update.
Wait for the system to validate the images.

When the images are successfully validated, the update process begins to install a new version of ONTAP on both clusters.

You can click Pause at any time to pause the updating process.
When the update process is completed, click Relaunch System Manager.