HP IO manual Upgrading procedure, Fio-bugreport

The –o overformat option is not supported in the 3.x.x VSL software. All upgraded HP IO Accelerator devices are formatted to the maximum advertised capacity, regardless of whether the device was overformatted prior to the upgrade.

Upgrading procedure

Be sure to follow the upgrade path and make sure that all previously installed IO Accelerator devices are updated with the appropriate 2.3.1-compatible firmware.

1.Prepare each existing IO Accelerator device for upgrade. a. Backup user data on each IO Accelerator device.

CAUTION: Upgrading IO Accelerator devices that were previously configured for VSL 1.x.x or 2.x.x to work with VSL 3.x.x requires a low-level media format of the device. No user data is maintained during the media format process. Be sure to backup all data on your IO Accelerator device as instructed before upgrading the firmware.

Do not back up the data onto another IO Accelerator device on the same system. The backup must be to a local disk or to an externally attached volume.

b.Run the fio-bugreportcommand-line utility and save the output. The output captures the device information for each device in the system. This device information will be useful in troubleshooting any upgrade issues. For example:

fio-bugreport

c.Detach the ioDrive devices. For example: fio-detach /dev/fct*

For more information, see fio-detach(on page 45).

2.Unload the current IO Accelerator driver. For example: $ modprobe -riomemory-vsl

3.Uninstall the 2.x HP IO Accelerator VSL software.

a.Go to Start > Control Panel.

b.Click Administrative Tools.

c.Click Computer Management.

d.Click Device Manager in the console tree at the left.

e.Expand the IO Accelerator Devices item.

f.Right-click the desired IO Accelerator device.

g.Click Uninstall or Delete the driver software for this device (depending on your version of Windows®).

h.Restart the computer.

4.Install the new VSL.

a.Download the IO Accelerator installation program for Microsoft Windows from the HP website (http://www.hp.com/support) to your desktop or a convenient directory.

b.Run the IO Accelerator installation program. The installation program presents a custom setup tree-view with options for installation.

Mouse over a component in the tree view to see the description.

c.Click Next.

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