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Planning your update

You need to create your own upgrade plan manually by using guidelines provided in this guide.

  • Reviewing pre-update resources
    Before updating the ONTAP software, you should review resources to understand issues you must resolve, understand new system behavior in the target release, and confirm hardware support.
  • Reviewing cluster upgrade/downgrade requirements
    Before updating the ONTAP software, you must verify that your cluster meets the general requirements. Some configurations and features also have requirements that you should understand.
  • Verifying cluster upgrade limits
    Before upgrading the ONTAP software, you must verify that your cluster does not exceed the platform system limits. SAN also has limits that you should verify in addition to the platform system limits.
  • Downgrade process considerations
    You need to know about downgrade issues and limitations before downgrading clusters to an earlier version of ONTAP.
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