https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/what-happens-when-adding-an-additional-oa/m-p/6433220#M20596 <P>If you insert a new OA with different firmware, the active OA reports a mismatch and provide a possibility to clone its own firmware to the new component.</P> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:45:18 GMT Torsten. 2014-04-01T09:45:18Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/what-happens-when-adding-an-additional-oa/m-p/6433094#M20595 <P>A lot of our C7000's currently have a single OA and we'd like to add a second unit for redundancy. The issue we can see is that the new ones we buy will have completely different firmware versions to the currently installed one.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What happens in this case? Does it not join in the operation of the enclosure until the other is brought up to the same/newer version? Or does the other unit up/downgrade the new units firmware to match it?</P> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:04:24 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/what-happens-when-adding-an-additional-oa/m-p/6433094#M20595 ISTM 2014-04-01T09:04:24Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/what-happens-when-adding-an-additional-oa/m-p/6433220#M20596 <P>If you insert a new OA with different firmware, the active OA reports a mismatch and provide a possibility to clone its own firmware to the new component.</P> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:45:18 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/what-happens-when-adding-an-additional-oa/m-p/6433220#M20596 Torsten. 2014-04-01T09:45:18Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/what-happens-when-adding-an-additional-oa/m-p/6433256#M20597 Perfect, ta! Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:14:01 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/what-happens-when-adding-an-additional-oa/m-p/6433256#M20597 ISTM 2014-04-01T10:14:01Z