topic Re: firmware upgrade in Integrity Servers

firmware upgrade

pjake — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:17:58 GMT

Hello People,

I am having a firmware upgrade being done by HP on by 8640 box. Somehow we have this experience that it goes and corrupts the vpars, and hp still has no reason for this. I want to know when firmware upgrade is done can i disconnect my boot disks so that nothing wrong happens on the boot disks.Does firmware upgrade does anything on the OS boot disk also at the efi level .

Thanks
Jake

Re: firmware upgrade

Torsten. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:35:50 GMT

"Does firmware upgrade does anything on the OS boot disk ...".

No.

Depending on the method of update sometimes a file is copied to the EFI area and executed - that's it.

What version of vPars and HP-UX do you run?

Example: hp-ux 11.13 and vPars A.04.06.

Re: firmware upgrade

pjake — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:40:26 GMT

A.04.03.03 HP-UX Virtual Partitions for 11.23

So basically my question was I can unplug my san and still firmware upgrade can go fine ?Firmware upgrade has nothing to do with OS boot disks ?

Re: firmware upgrade

Torsten. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:02:19 GMT

Your vPars version is already unsupported, see

http://docs.hp.com/en//1705/oc.pdf

chapter 3.6 Obsolescence of vPars Releases

Consider to update!

Maybe you have a problem between firm- and software, who knows ...

Re: firmware upgrade

cnb — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:02:23 GMT

Hi Jake,

As Torsten pointed out it depends. This update is performed offline with the o/s down and power off. This upgrade also addresses some EFI boot management issues. Please see the release notes for specific information:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=1844071&swItem=ux-64551-2&prodNameId=1844072&swEnvOID=54&swLang=13&taskId=135&mode=5

HTH,

Re: firmware upgrade

Marc Morin_2 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:42:59 GMT

Hi Jake,

Was just wondering which version you were upgrading to and from. i.e going to V4.1 from...

Also which method were you using to update the firmware.

- MP initiated using an FTP server

or

- CD image (.iso)

Thanks,

Marc

Re: firmware upgrade

pjake — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:09:42 GMT

I think its the next version. It happended on the other site so not sure how they did tha but its a good point will check on that , I think its on the CD image