6140 Firmware Best Practice

Hi,
We have a pair of 6140s with volumes mirrored by Veritas and have a requirement to upgrade the firmware to the latest version. Both are live and hosting mission critical application data. Ideally we want to keep the application running.
I have conflicting advice as to whether to quiece I/O to the storage. I have upgraded firmware of other vendors storage with only a proviso of minimizing it not stopping it. Service advisor is vague to say the least :)
Is there a best practice document detailing best practice/procedure for a 6140 firmware upgrade or can anyone give their experiences of upgrading live arrays?
Thanks in advance.
Trevor

Hi,
tmundell wrote:
Hi,
We have a pair of 6140s with volumes mirrored by Veritas and have a requirement to upgrade the firmware to the latest version. Both are live and hosting mission critical application data. Ideally we want to keep the application running.
I have conflicting advice as to whether to quiece I/O to the storage. I have upgraded firmware of other vendors storage with only a proviso of minimizing it not stopping it. Service advisor is vague to say the least :)
Is there a best practice document detailing best practice/procedure for a 6140 firmware upgrade No. Everything is in CAM.
In summary:
Controller FW: online upgrade
IOM FW: online upgrade
Drive FW: offline upgrade (which means, IO have to be stopped at 100%)
Regards
or can anyone give their experiences of upgrading live arrays?
Thanks in advance.
Trevor

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