Preparing an engine for upgrade

This topic describes how to prepare an engine to be upgraded.

Context

These steps are the same as the steps used to prepare the first engine for upgrade.

Steps

  1. Obtain software to be used on the upgrade process. See Obtain prerequisite software
  2. Stop the engine. See Stopping a metadata server
  3. Disable RSA II timer watchdogs. See Disabling the RSA II watchdogs
  4. Optionally, reassign filesets to other engines. See Reassign filesets to another metadata server in the cluster
  5. Copy configuration files to another location. See Copy configuration files to a backup location
  6. Upgrade the system BIOS. See Upgrading system BIOS.
  7. Upgrade the RSA II firmware. See Upgrading RSA II firmware.
  8. Optionally, split the boot drive mirror. See Splitting the boot drive mirror.

Parent topic: Upgrading additional metadata servers

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