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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2011
Benjamin L. Andrews, Tucson, AZ (US);
Anthony J. Ciaravella, Tucson, AZ (US);
Joseph W. Dain, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nikhil Khandelwal, Tucson, AZ (US);
Benjamin L. Andrews, Tucson, AZ (US);
Anthony J. Ciaravella, Tucson, AZ (US);
Joseph W. Dain, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nikhil Khandelwal, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various method, system, and computer program product embodiments for facilitating upgrades in a computing storage environment are provided. In one such embodiment, one of an available plurality of rolling upgrade policies registering at least one selectable upgrade parameter for an upgrade window is selected. A node down tolerance factor is set for at least one node in the computing storage environment. The node down tolerance factor specifies a percentage of elements of the at least one node taken offline to apply the selected one of the available plurality of rolling upgrade policies during the upgrade window.