Hello and welcome. This is Amit from the DP Solutions GSE Team. Today we will demonstrate
the PowerProtect DP Rapid Upgrade Checker Utility on Dell EMC PowerProtect DP Series Appliances
and IDPA. This utility validates all upgrade pre-checks and shows us a consolidated status
with remedy information for failed checks. The same remedy information can be used to resolve
or mitigate those issues to make your appliance fit for upgrade. Please be aware that this
utility can also be used for post upgrade checks. Let's review the supported versions. This utility
supports PowerProtect DP Series or IDPA versions 2.3.x through 2.7.x. It covers all PowerProtect
appliance models with all upgrade scenarios it is important to note that all upcoming releases for
PowerProtect and IDPA will be supported by this utility. As a prerequisite user must download the
latest version of the PowerProtect DP Rapid Upgrade Checker Utility. We will go through
the steps to download the latest version of the utility from the Dell EMC support site. User must
log into dell.com/support and ensure that they have signed in in order to download this utility.
Open a browser and log into dell.com/support and you will see a home page like this. On the top
right corner user can ensure that they're logged in, and you will see an icon like this. Once you
have logged in click on ‘Browse All Products’, then select ‘Software and Solutions’, select ‘Data
Protection’ category and select ‘Data Backup and Protection Storage’. You will see as a category
‘PowerProtect Appliance’. Select that, and then select ‘PowerProtect Data Protection Software’
in order to view the downloads. This gets us to the home page, or the product support page
for PowerProtect Data Protection Software. You can click on ‘Drivers and Downloads’
and sort the downloads by publish date and you will see ‘PowerProtect DP Rapid Upgrade
Checker Utility’, and you can click on download in order to download it.
Lastly be aware that you must extract or unzip this package before uploading it
to the ACM server. Now let's review the steps to execute this utility.
User can copy the PowerProtect DP Rapid Upgrade Checker jar file and the corresponding checksum
file on the Appliance Configuration Manager VM in the /data01 folder.
Now, you may copy it to any folder of your choice, for the purpose of the steps mentioned
here we have chosen data01 folder. Connect to the ACM using SSH with root credentials
and change the screen layout to full screen mode. Change directory to the /data01 folder.
Verify the checksum for the downloaded file using the command ‘sha256sum -c’ and the
PowerProtect DP Rapid Upgrade Checker sha256 file. The output of the above checksum command should be
‘OK’. Run the utility using the command ‘java -jar’ the utility name. To run the utility for
a specific component pass the component name, for example ‘java -jar’ the utility name space ‘ACM’.
Now to see all options that are available with this utility you can run the command
‘java -jar’ the utility name space ‘help’ now let's move into the demo section.
Now, as you can see we have opened SSH to the ACM server and the file has been
transferred to /data01 directory using file transfer software like WinSCP or FileZilla.
Now we'll go to the /data01 directory via cd command
and list the files. We see the two files for the Rapid Upgrade Checker Utility. As a first
step user must run the ‘sha256sum’ command in order to check the integrity of the file.
Once this command is run the expected output is ‘OK’ which confirms our Upgrade Checker
Utility file is fine. Now in order to run the tool or utility we must run the command
‘java -jar’ and the utility name. Hit enter and this will execute the upgrade readiness checks.
It firstly verifies the current version of the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance
and then goes ahead with the upgrade pre-checks. There are several pre-checks
that will run on all the components of the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance,
it will eventually give us a comprehensive summary along with the passed, warning and failed checks.
As we can see it started performing checks on Protection Storage, we see a few alerts
in the Protection Storage then now it has started the checks on the Protection Software.
similarly There are some other checks being run on the Hypervisor Manager and so on,
and there we have the comprehensive summary. The script execution or utility execution
has completed, we scroll up we can see the upgrade readiness summary where it gives us
the utility version, the PowerProtect DP Series Appliance version, model,
generation etc. It also gives us a DNS result table with each component in the IP addresses
along with the Fully Qualified Domain Name. After that you can see the upgrade readiness status
with a list of all the successful checks, the checks that have passed.
And after that we do see the warning checks, there are certain alerts that must be resolved,
and lastly we have the fail checks. A user can review the remedy information
and review the KB article or relevant remedy in order to fix these issues. Please be aware that
post the execution of PowerProtect DP Rapid Upgrade Checker utility it will create two
files. Both of them are stored under temp, one of them is the ‘upgrade_precheck_status.txt’
and the other one is the ‘upgrade_precheck.log’ file. The ‘upgrade_precheck_status.txt’ would
have the information on all the checks, basically the summary report. You can review this at any
time and find out what were the failed checks and review the remedy information to fix those.
Similarly, we also have the ‘upgrade_precheck.log’ file which is used by Dell EMC support in order to
troubleshoot any of these failed checks and make the appliance fit for upgrade.
Whenever a user is trying to fix these issues they can review the remedy information and perform the
steps that are mentioned in the remedy. If they are unable to fix the issue themselves then they
must open a ticket with the Dell EMC support and provide these two files for reference.
This completes the demo for the PowerProtect DP Rapid Upgrade Checker Utility. Thank you.