Upgrading the Photon-based FlashArray SRA

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The Photon-based SRA is a .tar file that will look something like below:

Navigate to the SRM appliance administration web interface. Generally this will be at the SRM server FQDN with port 5480.

Login (default username is admin) and click on the Storage Replication Adapters page:

You will see the Everpure FlashArray SRA listed there. Ensure the the current version is older than what you are about to install.

There is no direct update process, so click on the New Adapter button.

Click Upload to deliver the new SRA:

Point it to the new SRA version and let it update:

Once it completes, click Close.

Upon completion, one of two things will happen:

  1. If only one Pure Storage FlashArray SRA is present, the upgrade is complete.
  2. If there are two listings of the Pure Storage FlashArray SRA like the below image, please continue to remove the old adapter instance.

    Click on the vertical ellipsis of the older SRA and choose Delete.

    Note:

    Some may ask if it is necessary to copy/import SRA configuration for the FlashArray SRA, but this is not needed. All required state is persisted upon removal of the previous SRA version.

    Confirm the deletion:

    Repeat the same process on the other SRM server (and any other paired sites in the case of a shared recovery model).