[gpfsug-discuss] Minor GPFS versions coexistence problems?

Buterbaugh, Kevin L Kevin.Buterbaugh at Vanderbilt.Edu
Mon Aug 15 13:45:25 BST 2016


Richard,

I will second what Bob said with one caveat … on one occasion we had an issue with our multi-cluster setup because the PTF’s were incompatible.  However, that was clearly documented in the release notes, which we obviously hadn’t read carefully enough.

While we generally do rolling upgrades over a two to three week period, we have run for months with clients at differing PTF levels.  HTHAL…

Kevin

On Aug 15, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Oesterlin, Robert <Robert.Oesterlin at nuance.com<mailto:Robert.Oesterlin at nuance.com>> wrote:

In general, yes, it's common practice to do the 'rolling upgrades'. If I had to do my whole cluster at once, with an outage, I'd probably never upgrade. :)


Bob Oesterlin
Sr Storage Engineer, Nuance HPC Grid


From: <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org<mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org>> on behalf of "Sobey, Richard A" <r.sobey at imperial.ac.uk<mailto:r.sobey at imperial.ac.uk>>
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Hi all,

If I wanted to upgrade my NSD nodes one at a time from 3.5.0.22 to 3.5.0.27 (or whatever the latest in that branch is) am I ok to stagger it over a few days, perhaps up to 2 weeks or will I run into problems if they’re on different versions?

Cheers

Richard
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