Changing the product edition by using the installation toolkit

You can change the IBM Storage Scale product edition from your currently installed product edition by using the installation toolkit.

Use the following steps for changing the IBM Storage Scale product edition by using the installation toolkit.
Important: If the cluster where you plan to make a supported edition change has an interim fix (efix) applied to its IBM Storage Scale version, you must either upgrade to a version with no interim fix applied, or contact IBM Storage Scale support team.
  1. Download from IBM® Support Fix Central the installation image of the IBM Storage Scale edition that you are planning to change to.
  2. Extract the installation image.

    For performing an upgrade by using the installation toolkit, a key requirement is the cluster definition file.

  3. Use the ./spectrumscale config populate command to traverse the existing cluster and populate the cluster definition file.
    For more information about obtaining the current cluster configuration, see Step 4 of Performing online upgrade by using the installation toolkit.
  4. Run the upgrade precheck procedure of the installation toolkit. 
    cd /usr/lpp/mmfs/x.x.x.x/ansible-toolkit
./spectrumscale upgrade precheck
    Note: Replace x.x.x.x with the IBM Storage Scale version.
  5. Run the upgrade procedure of the installation toolkit. 
    cd /usr/lpp/mmfs/x.x.x.x/ansible-toolkit
./spectrumscale upgrade run
With these steps, the product edition is changed and the applicable packages are installed on all nodes that are specified in the cluster definition file.