Upgrading Global Data Platform

Upgrade Global Data Platform service.

Before you begin

Important:

Check your Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform version:

Version 4.20 or earlier: Continue with this procedure
Version 4.21 or later: see Migrating Global Data Platform

Make sure no Backup & Restore jobs are running.
Run the mmhealth command to check the scale common health status of the storage scale cluster.

About this task

You can upgrade to Global Data Platform from the Services page or Settings > Upgrades page.

For more information about the storage version support, see Support matrix.

Procedure

In the Installed section, click Upgrade in Global data platform. Alternatively, click Upgrade in the ellipsis menu of Global data platform.
Only if an upgrade is available for Global data platform, the Upgrade option is displayed. Alternatively, you can go to the Settings > Upgrades page and view the upgrade status and in progress upgrades. The Global Data Platform goes into rolling upgrade. If you can run service upgrades in parallel in a non-disruptive manner, click Upgrade (<number of upgrades available>). If there are any errors found in the automatic prechecks, then click the service tile for more details about the error.
The Upgrade global data platform window gets displayed. It displays the upgrade version and approximate time to complete the upgrade.
In Upgrade global data platform window, click Upgrade.
The upgrade starts and you can see the upgrade status. The upgrade starts and you can see the upgrade status. The IBM Fusion runs common pre-checks during upgrade. You can easily monitor each step, with a clear understanding of what is in progress. If anything gets stuck, a new guided workflow shows you what needs your attention and guides you with the resolution. After the completion of upgrade, a success notification gets displayed. To know more about the pre-checks, see Pre-checks in About this task section.
Note: Wait for a minute or more to see the upgrade status in the IBM Fusion user interface.

If you see the "Scale is in critical state" error message on the screen, ignore it as IBM Storage Scale goes back to healthy state after the upgrade completes successfully.
If you see “Service upgrade has failed” message, then wait for the upgrade to retry automatically. If issues do not exist in your setup, then upgrade completes successfully.
Run the following commands to delete the resources that are deprecated in IBM Storage Scale. For more information, see Remove deprecated resources.
```
 oc delete ClusterRoleBinding ibm-spectrum-scale-dns
    oc delete ClusterRole ibm-spectrum-scale-dns
```