How to upgrade Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM)
Applies to
- Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM)
- OnCommand Unified Manager (OCUM)
Description
Performing an Active IQ Unified Manager upgrade helps gain new features and functionality, a more stable and supportable release, and resolves known issues. Here's the procedure to upgrade Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM).
Procedure
- Use the NetApp Interoperability Matrix to confirm the desired version of AIQUM is supported in your environment
- Add the Active IQ Unified Manager solution
- Select View Refine Search Criteria
- Check the desired version of AIQUM
- If you need to upgrade the OS to a supported version the recommendation is to deploy a new host with the desired version and migrate Unified Manager to the new host.
- Determine a supported upgrade path
- Unified Manager upgrades are limited to an N-2 model, meaning an upgrade can only be performed within the next 2 releases
- An example upgrade path from AIQUM 9.7 to AIQUM 9.11 is as follows: Upgrade from 9.7 to 9.9 -> Upgrade from 9.9 to 9.11
- Unified Manager upgrades are limited to an N-2 model, meaning an upgrade can only be performed within the next 2 releases
- Download the desired version from the NetApp Support Site
- Create a virtual machine backup
- Remove Workflow Automation (WFA) if integrated with Unified Manager
- Reserve memory and CPU resources on the VM
- Remove any limits on CPU and memory reservation
- Perform the upgrade steps based on your platform
- If using WFA, upgrade to the latest WFA pack
- Add WFA integration back to AIQUM