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Anyone using an EQ PS5000e?

We're on firmware version 4.3.7 for ours and planning to upgrade tonight. I have both 5.0.7 and 5.0.2, but I'm wary of using 507 since it just came out. I read that 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 had some problems. Any known issues with 502?

Thanks.

VMWare Environment: vSphere 7.0, EQ PS6210 SANs, Dell R730 Hosts, dedicated Dell switches w/ separate vlans for vmotion and iscsi.
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AndreTheGiant
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Usually a firmware update does not require a downtime (with two controller, of course).

But the upgrade from 4.x to 5.x has a lot of changes and there can be a delay in controller switch-over.

So I suggest to plan a downtime or make it in non-peack hours.

Andre

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Hello.

Note: This discussion was moved from the vSphere Upgrade & Install community to the VMware vSphere Storage community.

I have both 5.0.2 and 5.0.7 deployed on PS4000E units with no issues.  Definitely stay away from 5.0.1 and/or 5.0.0, but with that being said - I actually had those versions deployed without issue as well.

Good Luck!

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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I've got a PS5000XV with firmware 5.0.2 for a lot of time.

Now it has 5.0.4 version (and next week I will upgrade to 5.0.7).

No issues at all.

Andre

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Thanks, guys. I forgot to ask if the 5.x updates require downtime. Way back when I updated to 4.3.7, someone claimed that future firmware upgrades would not require a restart of the whole array. How did it work for you?

Thanks.

VMWare Environment: vSphere 7.0, EQ PS6210 SANs, Dell R730 Hosts, dedicated Dell switches w/ separate vlans for vmotion and iscsi.
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I either Storage vMotion the VMs off or power then down when doing the firmware upgrades on the EQ, so I honestly can't answer.  I'm pretty conservative when it comes to these types of upgrades, although I have read that the controllers failover and there can be 0 downtime in the process.

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Yeah, I'm planning for downtime and sent out the alert. I guess I'll know tonight if the claim is true.

VMWare Environment: vSphere 7.0, EQ PS6210 SANs, Dell R730 Hosts, dedicated Dell switches w/ separate vlans for vmotion and iscsi.
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Usually a firmware update does not require a downtime (with two controller, of course).

But the upgrade from 4.x to 5.x has a lot of changes and there can be a delay in controller switch-over.

So I suggest to plan a downtime or make it in non-peack hours.

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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Yup, I took all the VMs down, although I don't think the hosts ever lost their connections. I meant to leave a trivial VM up as a test, but forgot to do that.

Anyway, the update went smoothly. Thanks.

VMWare Environment: vSphere 7.0, EQ PS6210 SANs, Dell R730 Hosts, dedicated Dell switches w/ separate vlans for vmotion and iscsi.
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