Upgrade issues

This topic describes the issues that you might encounter while upgrading IBM Storage Scale from one version to another.

Installation toolkit setup command fails on RHEL 7.x nodes with setuptools package-related error
The installation toolkit setup command might fail on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 7.x nodes with a setuptools package-related error.
Upgrade precheck by using the installation toolkit might fail on protocol nodes in an ESS environment
The installation toolkit upgrade precheck might fail on protocol nodes in an Elastic Storage Server (ESS) environment due to versionlocks being set on certain packages.
Home cluster unable to unload mmfs modules for upgrades
The home cluster cannot unload mmfs modules because of the NFS severs that are running on the home cluster.
File conflict issue while upgrading SLES on IBM Storage Scale nodes
While upgrading SLES on IBM Storage Scale nodes using the zypper up command, you might encounter file conflicts.
NSD nodes cannot connect to storage after upgrading from SLES 15 SP1 to SP2
After upgrading from SLES 15 SP1 to SP2, NSD nodes might be unable to connect to the storage.
After upgrading IBM Storage Scale code, trying to mark events as read returns a server error message
After upgrading IBM Storage Scale code, you might encounter an error message that says, "The server was unable to process the request. Error invoking the RPC method..." when trying to mark events as read. This topic describes a workaround.
RDMA adapters not supporting ATOMIC operations
Remote Direct Access Memory (RDMA) adapters must support atomic operations. For more information about available configuration requirements for utilizing RDMA, refer to the IBM Storage Scale FAQ in IBM® Documentation.

Parent topic: Troubleshooting