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Firmware download on an enterprise-class platform
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ecp:admin> hashow
Local CP (Slot 5, CP0): Active, Warm Recovered
Remote CP (Slot 6, CP1): Standby, Healthy
HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized
CP blades must be synchronized and running Fabric OS v6.0.0 or later to provide a
nondisruptive download. If the two CP blades are not synchronized, enter the haSyncStart
command to synchronize them. If the CPs still are not synchronized, contact your switch
service provider.
For further troubleshooting, refer to the Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide .
8. Enter the firmwareDownload command and respond to the interactive prompts.
9. At the “Do you want to continue [y/n]” prompt, enter y.
The firmware is downloaded to one CP blade at a time, beginning with the standby CP blade.
During the process, the active CP blade fails over. After the firmware is downloaded, a firmware
commit starts on both CP blades. The entire firmware download and commit process takes
approximately 17 minutes.
If an AP blade is present: At the point of the failover an autoleveling process is activated.
Autoleveling is triggered when the active CP detects a blade that contains a different version of
the firmware, regardless of which version is older. Autoleveling downloads firmware to the AP
blade, swaps partitions, reboots the blade, and copies the new firmware from the primary
partition to the secondary partition. If you have multiple AP blades, they are updated
simultaneously; however, the downloads can occur at different rates.
Autoleveling takes place in parallel with the firmware download being performed on the CPs,
but does not impact performance. Fibre Channel traffic is not disrupted during autoleveling,
but GbE traffic on AP blades may be affected.
ecp:admin> firmwaredownload
Type of Firmware (FOS, SAS, or any application) [FOS]:
Server Name or IP Address:
10.1.2.3
User Name: userfoo
File Name: /home/userfoo/v6.4.0
Network Protocol (1-auto-select, 2-FTP, 3-SCP) [1]:
Password:
<hidden>
Checking version compatibility...
Version compatibility check passed.
The following AP blades are installed in the system.
Slot Name Versions Traffic Disrupted
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3
FC4-16IP v6.4.0 GigE
2 FA4-18 v6.4.0 Virtualization
4 FR4-18i v6.4.0 None
10 FR4-18i v6.4.0 None
This command will upgrade the firmware on both CPs and all AP blade(s) above.
If you want to upgrade firmware on a single CP only, please use -s option.
You may run firmwaredownloadstatus to get the status of this"
command.
This command will cause a warm/non-disruptive boot on the active CP,
but will require that existing telnet, secure telnet or SSH sessions
be restarted.