Spectrum Connect can be upgraded or installed
together with vSphere failover procedure.
- Verify that at least two Spectrum Connect instances
are registered as storage providers on a vCenter server.
- Both Spectrum Connect instances must be online, one
of them must be active and the other one – standby.
To minimize system downtime, you can upgrade the existing Spectrum Connect or install its new release along with
completing failover between active and standby instances in vSphere environment.
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Copy the upgrade or installation package files to a temporary folder on a virtual machine that
is hosting Spectrum Connect.
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Upgrade or install the standbySpectrum Connect
instance. See Upgrading an existing installation or Performing first-time installation of Spectrum Connect.
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Verify the standby instance connectivity to a storage system, by using the
sc_storage_array list command.
A proper connectivity to a storage system is indicated by
Yes in the
Connected field, as illustrated in the following
example.
Array Alias Array Identifier Management IP Addresses Elapsed time since last update Connected Notes
------------- ------------------ ------------------------- -------------------------------- ----------- -------
SVC232 0000020062A1D16C 9.115.246.232 7 minutes Yes
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Complete the active Spectrum Connect failover to
the standby instance, by restarting the guest operation system of the virtual machine that is
hosting the active Spectrum Connect.
The failover process can take up to 8 minutes to complete. As a result, the standby
instance becomes active, running the newly upgraded or installed Spectrum Connect.
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Repeat the upgrade/install and failover processes for the remaining Spectrum Connect instances.