HP AA979A - StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V, Administrator'S Manual, Page: 180 / 465

182 Installing and maintaining firmware
10. Respond to the prompts as follows:
11. 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 is failed over. After the firmware is downloaded, a firmware commit
starts on both CP blades. The entire firmware download and commit process takes approximately 15
minutes.
If there is an AP blade present : At the point of the failover an auto-leveling process is activated.
Auto-leveling is triggered when the active CP detects a blade that contains a different version of the
firmware, regardless of which version is older. Auto-leveling 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.
sw77:root> firmwaredownload
Type of Firmware (FOS, SAS, or any application) [FOS]:
Server Name or IP Address: 192.168.32.10
Network Protocol (1-auto-select, 2-FTP, 3-SCP) [1]:
User Name: userfoo
File Name: /home/userfoo/v5.3.0
Password:
Verifying the input parameters …
Verifying the system parameters for firmwaredownload….
The following AP blades are installed in the system.
Slot Name Versions Traffic Disrupted
-----------------------------------------------------------------
3 FC4-16IP v5.3.0 GigE
2 FA4-18 v5.3.0 Virtualization
4 FR4-18i v5.3.0 None
10 FR4-18i v5.3.0 None
This command will upgrade both CPs and all AP blade(s) above. It
will temporarily disrupt the specified traffic on the AP blade(s) when it
activates the new firmware. If you want to upgrade a single CP only,
please use -s option.
You can run firmwareDownloadStatus to get the status of this command.
Server Name
or IP Address
Enter the name or IP address of the server where the firmware file is stored:
for example, 192.1.2.3. IPv6 and DNS are supported by
firmwareDownload
in Fabric OS 5.3.0. If DNS is enabled and a server
name instead of a server IP address is specified in the command line,
firmwareDownload
determines whether IPv4 or IPv6 should be used.
User name
Enter the user name of your account on the server: for example, JohnDoe .
File name
Fabric OS 5.3.0 or higher : Specify the fully qualified path name of the
firmware directory, for example, /pub/v5.3.0 . Absolure path names may
be specified using forward slashes (/).
Fabric OS 5.2.x or earlier : Specify the full path name of the firmware
directory, appended by release.plist ; for example,
/pub/v5.2.x/release.plist .
Note : For v4.x and v5.x switches only, do not attempt to locate the
release.plist file in the top level directory; there is a release.plist file for
each platform, and the correct one is automatically selected.
Password
Enter a password. This operand can be omitted if firmware is accessible
through a local Directory, or if no password is required by the FTP server.
This operand is required when accessing an SSH server.