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Plan your upgrade with Upgrade Advisor

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If you have an active SupportEdge Services contract for Active IQ Digital Advisor, it is recommended that you use Upgrade Advisor to generate an upgrade plan.

The Upgrade Advisor service in Active IQ Digital Advisor provides intelligence that helps you plan your upgrade and minimizes uncertainty and risk.

Active IQ identifies issues in your environment that can be resolved by upgrading to a newer version of ONTAP. The Upgrade Advisor service helps you plan for a successful upgrade and provides a report of issues you might need to be aware of in the ONTAP version you're upgrading to.

If you do not have an active Support Edge Services contract for Active IQ Digital Advisor, you should prepare for your upgrade without Upgrade Advisor.

Steps

  1. Launch Active IQ

  2. In Active IQ view any risks associated with your cluster and manually take corrective actions.

    Risks included in the SW Config Change, HW Config Change, and HW Replacement categories need to be resolved prior to performing an ONTAP upgrade.

  3. Review the recommended upgrade path and generate your upgrade plan.

What's next

  • You should review the ONTAP release notes for the target ONTAP release recommended for your cluster by Upgrade Advisor; then you should follow the plan generated by Upgrade Advisor to upgrade your cluster.

  • You should reboot the SP or BMC before the upgrade begins.