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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jun Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Yourong Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Haitao Kenny Zhou, Shanghai, CN;
Kenneth Wood, Hollis, NH (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is used in managing software upgrades in storage systems. An upgrade path information is received describing conditions relevant to upgrading a software from a set of source software revisions to a set of target software revisions. A set of rules denotes storage system configuration conditions relevant to upgrading the software from a source software revision to a target software revision. Storage system configuration information from a set of storage systems of a set of customers is gathered. Storage system configuration of a storage system is analyzed for a software upgrade of the storage system in accordance with a set of rules associated with the software upgrade.