Upgrading SMB packages
Use these steps to upgrade IBM Spectrum Scale™ SMB packages.
Attention: All protocols must also be upgraded to the newer code level along with base GPFS™.
SMB package update in an IBM Spectrum Scale cluster is done in two phases. The protocol nodes in the cluster are divided in two halves and SMB is updated on each half one by one. In the following steps, NodeList1 is the comma-separated list of nodes in the first half in the cluster and NodeList2 is the comma-separated list of nodes in the second half of the cluster.
Note: All protocol nodes running the SMB service must have the same version of
gpfs.smb installed at any time. This requires a brief outage of the SMB service
to upgrade gpfs.smb to the newer version across all protocol nodes. The
procedure outlined here is intended to reduce the outage to a minimum.