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Upgrading nondisruptively in a SnapMirror environment

You must suspend SnapMirror operations before performing a nondisruptive upgrade of Data ONTAP.

About this task

The requirement to suspend SnapMirror operations applies to both synchronous and asynchronous SnapMirror modes.

For more information about SnapMirror operations, see the snapmirror(1) man page and the Data ONTAP Data Protection Online Backup and Recovery Guide for 7-Mode.

Steps

  1. For each destination volume, enter the following command to allow existing SnapMirror transfers to finish: snapmirror quiesce destination
    Example
    To quiesce transfers involving the destination volume toaster-cl1-cn:vol1, enter the following command: snapmirror quiesce toaster-cl1-cn:vol1
  2. Enter the following command on both source and destination systems to disable SnapMirror operations: snapmirror off
    As an alternative, you can set the snapmirror.enable option to off.
  3. Complete the nondisruptive upgrade according to your upgrade plan.
  4. Enter the following command to reenable SnapMirror operations: snapmirror on