Upgrading a disaster recovery setup

Use this procedure to upgrade IBM Storage Fusion HCI System with Metro-DR or Regional DR setup.

About this task

In Metro-DR upgrade, you must follow the upgrade of sites in the specified order. For Regional DR upgrade, you can interchange step 1 and 2 of the procedure, and step 3 is not applicable for Regional DR.

In IBM Storage Fusion HCI System 2.8.0 release, multi rack is not supported with Global Data Platform.

Important: Contact IBM support before you begin the upgrade of Metro-DR deployment.

Procedure

  1. Upgrade site 1.
    For the procedure to upgrade, see the single rack upgrade procedure in Upgrading IBM Storage Fusion HCI System.
  2. Upgrade site 2.
    For the procedure to upgrade, see the single rack upgrade procedure in Upgrading IBM Storage Fusion HCI System.
  3. For Metro-DR, upgrade Tiebreaker. For the tiebreaker upgrade procedure, see Upgrading tiebreaker from IBM Storage Scale 5.1.9.1 to 5.2.0.0 or 5.2.0.0 to 5.2.0.1.