Hello everyone. This is Brett Albertson here to demonstrate the upgrade advisor in NetApp's Active IQ Digital Advisor and Blue XP's Digital Advisor, which was released in January 2024. The goal of this enhancement was to give you more advice on which version you should upgrade to, as well as what will be fixed by performing the upgrade. Also, we've managed to reduce the number of steps for upgrading ONTAP by as much as 80%. Which will shorten the amount of time the process takes. Click on the ONAP upgrades over here on the right hand side of the GUI to get started. This new experience simplifies upgrade planning and shortens upgrade times, but if you ever want to get back to the old experience, you can toggle it at the top of the screen here. Also, please note that upgrades can be planned well before you're going to perform the upgrade. This gives you a chance to resolve upgrade blockers and warnings, which I'll talk about later. This screen we're looking at is the cluster selection screen. Upgrade planning is now done at the cluster level, not the node level, since it's not supported to upgrade some nodes of a cluster while leaving the others at the old version. This simplifies the selection process and also shortens the resulting plan. If some clusters have an error condition not allowing them to plan an upgrade, it will be shown as resolve issue in the right-h hand column. Let's look at an example.This system has not sent an auto support in the last 30 days. A weekly or manual auto support is needed to properly plan and upgrade. There is a link to documentation to help you set up and enable autosport. And there's also a link to where you could manually upload an autoport if you've generated one. Another possible reason that you might not be able to plan an upgrade is that there might be different versions of ONAP running on different nodes of the cluster. That's not a supported state and that's not one that we're going to plan upgrades for. There are two main ways to use this selection screen. You can select more than one node at a time. This would be bulk planning. So if I select two of these systems, you can see that uh the generate upgrade plan button becomes available. And if I click that, it'll take me right to the end of this process where we generate the upgrade plan. It goes based on the target version you've selected here, which you could change by selecting the pencil. However, that bypasses a lot of the value that we've changed in this upgrade advisor. So we're actually going to look at one cluster at a time. If you look at one cluster at a time, we then give you a lot of advice on which version you should go to and also a lot of the risk analysis that you're going to see me present later. So, at this point, you can either click view upgrade recommendations or generate upgrade plan. They take you to the same place. The first selection you need to make is the choice of what version of ONAP that you're going to upgrade to. So there's a big box here and we always show the latest patch level of your current release. So right now this system is at 9101 P12. We are showing currently as I record this the latest patch which is P16. So this is always one of the choices. A lot of customers prefer that as a very lowrisk thing. They're just basically patching or this is the recommended release. This is not necessarily the latest version. This is the version that NetApp feels has reached maturity based on real data from our customers environments and support cases those customers are seeing. So this is the release NetApp recommends that you go to if you were to do an upgrade. You also can select in this box any version of ONAP that's uh compatible with your system. So those are the three choices in this selection. You may have noticed though there are three tabs down here. So let's talk about those tabs. The first one is called the risk advisor and based on the selections up here this changes. So if watch if I change this the risk summary will change. So if I load P16 some of my risks will be resolved but many will not be resolved. So this is risks in the current OS and this is projected risks after the upgrade. If I go to this release, the numbers will change. The well, not the ones on the lefth hand side, but the one on the right projected after the upgrade will change. So you can see that there are now 12 resolved risks, 18 not resolved, and one new risk. Yes, unfortunately, NetApp strives to make every release bug-free, but as we all know with software, that's not possible. So sometimes there are in fact bugs in the versions you go to. So we want to warn you about that.doesn't mean this is critical. you you'd click on that to get more information. So all of these blue ones are clickable. So you can see for example which 12 risks will be resolved by upgrading to this version we have selected. So all of these will be resolved. Here are 18 that are not resolved. Now you might say well why are these not resolved? Well, these are mostly configuration settings and other things that are not going to be fixed by an ONAP update, right? A single path to a hard drive is not going to be fixed or a software update. You need to go physically cable that drive. And then you could see this new risk that you're going to be introducing, but this is one that has to do with the cluster switch software. This later version of OnTap needs a later version of the cluster switch software. So you're going to have to upgrade that and that'll be called out as part of the upgrade process. Anyway, so this is this part of the guey is called the risk advisor and I really like this new feature that is brand new as of January 2024 and shows you,know, what you're going to be resolving, not resolving, etc. Let's look at the other tabs. There's a pre-upgrade check. This pre-upgrade check looks for two types of pre-upgrade checks that have been around for a long time, but before now have never been presented in the planning process. These would be checks that normally were done by ONTAP right before you kick off an upgrade. And these are in two categories. There are upgrade blockers and upgrade warnings. Blockers are one that we will prevent you from upgrading on tap until you resolve this issue. For example, in this case, there is an outdated shelf firmware that needs to be updated before the upgrade happens because it if you look at the details of this bug, this bug presents itself during the upgrade. So, you need to resolve this before you do the upgrade. These warnings, however, are things that are issues, but they don't rise to the level where we would block you from doing the upgrade beforeyou do. So, we do recommend you resolve the warnings if possible. Sometimes it's not possible, but ifyou can to resolve those also, but you must resolve the upgrade blockers. This last tab is sort of like the release notes of the version. Remember, one of the great features about maintaining your support contract with NetApp is you get all the great new features of the newer ONTP versions for free as part of your support contract maintenance. So, there were new features released in 913 that you're going to get to upgrade to and get those great features as part of your support contract. So, that's what these three tabs cover. So, now let's go ahead. We're comfortable with this. So, let's go ahead and generate the actual upgrade plan by clicking on this giant blue button. So, this dialogue looks a lot like previously. It's not very different at all. We recommend you use automated non-disruptive upgrades. There are other choices, but NDU, which is what we call automated non-disruptive upgrades, is a feature of Ontap that allows you to do in many cases completely non-disruptive upgrades where users will never even realize that you upgraded your storage OS. And that's possible. It depends on the protocols you're running and how you're mounting your volumes from the hosts. But assuming that you are mounting them in a certain way and you have certain protocols, it could be completely non-disruptive. So please, if you can use the A&DU style upgrade, we highly recommend it. The other thing is that these reports can be generated in PDF or an Excel format. They're the same content. One is in like a tabbed Excel, which is what I'm going to show you, and one is just in a single PDF with page breaks. It's otherwise identical content. So let's generate this plan. So you're going to get an email and it's going to take you to this reports tab. So let's bring up this plan. Now we are looking at the generated plan. So there's a cover sheet, an index which is clickable that takes you to the different tabs. It has the cluster details. This is the just the details of the members of the clusters that are going to be upgraded. What their current version is and what their target version is. Not so exciting. Now here is the risk summary which tells you what risks you have. how what risks will be resolved and what risks will not be resolved and which risks will be introduced by the upgrade. And you can see them categorized and all of these are clickable. I didn't show you this before, I should have, but all of these are clickable for additional details on the risk. It looks just like in the wellness widget. It's the same risk detail you see there. The next tab is very interesting. It is what I mentioned before, the upgrade blockers and the upgrade warnings again in the report. So you have this if you need to take this to someone to get it approved and they want a plan and they want to see what the different warnings and blockers are or you could generate this a month before you do an upgrade to have time toget as many blockers and warnings fixed as you can before you perform the upgrade.And then this is the actual upgrade plan itself. It's a step-by-step plan. You might notice in here there are directions for system manager and also for the ontap command line interface CLI. So you could perform it either way. We have the steps for each one. You know, system manager does automate a few things for you, especially in later versions of ONAP where it makes it simpler and does some of the steps kind of behind the scenes for you, but either one works, whatever you're comfortable with. And then there's another tab. The last tab is a backout plan. The backup plans are pretty standard. You usually just run through the same upgrade procedure but with the original image. In summary, the upgrade advisor in Active IQ Digital Advisor helps you decide what to upgrade to what version and then gives you a concise step-by-step plan on how to do it. It's very invaluable when you need to keep your system update and secure. Try it out today. Go to activeiq.netapp.com netapp.comand log in with your standard NetApp login credentials. Thank you.