topic Re: c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work in BladeSystem - General

c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work

joel Krajden — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:14:11 GMT

Command does not show blade firmware (disk controller or bios)

> update show

Device Name Location Version NewVersion
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRAY | BladeSystem c7000 Onboard Administrator Tray | - | 1.3 | 1.3
ICBAY | HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for c-Class | 1A | 2.8.3 | 2.8.3
ICBAY | HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module for c-Class | 2A | 2.8.3 | 2.8.3

> update show blade 1

Device Name Location Version NewVersion
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BLADE 1: The operation cannot be performed on the requested device.

Joel

Re: c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work

Raghuarch — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:47:01 GMT

Hi Joel,

UPDATE {SHOW | DEVICE} [ FORCE ] {ALL | LCD | TRAY | BLADE [ALL | [{ , | - } ]] | ICBAY [ALL | [{ , | - } ]] | FAN [ALL | [{
, | - } ]] }: Administrator account privileges are required... UPDATE SHOW (or SHOW UPDATE) displays enclosure components that are available for microcode upgrade.
UPDATE DEVICE executes the upgrade process on one or more available enclosure components (if required). UPDATE DEVICE FORCE option allows microcode updates regardless of current
version number.

This command works only on Tape Blades it shows the ISMIC version or TAPEMIC version.

If you want to see the ROM version of the Server, See the Rack Firmware page in the GUI.

If you have any Storage Blades try to execute the command it will work fine.

Re: c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work

joel Krajden — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:03:58 GMT

Perhaps the documentation could be improved to clarify the blade types.

Ideally being able to upgrade the firmware on the CPU blades from the OA would be great.

Thanks,

Joel

Re: c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work

Siegfried76 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:10:27 GMT

Hi,

Your post is very interresting.

I've just checked on OA the show update command and here is the result:

BLADE | HP StorageWorks SB40c | 2 | 1.20 | 2.20
BLADE | HP StorageWorks SB40c | 4 | 1.20 | 2.20
BLADE | HP StorageWorks SB920c | 6 | 1.20 | 2.20

My question is which command do i type to update 2xSB40C + 1xSB920c?
And can i update them in production?

Thanks a lot for your help :-)

Siegfried

Re: c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work

Raghuarch — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:38:08 GMT

Use the below command:
update device blade

Re: c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work

Siegfried76 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:55:04 GMT

Thanks, but can i do it in production?

I'll try this command yesterday but there was a message on OA the upgrade can disrupt the OS?

Is someone has upgraded SB40C & SB920C in production?

Thanks a lot

Re: c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work

Raghuarch — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:28:57 GMT

When you update the firmware of Storage blade it does disrupt the IO Operation.

Re: c7000 OA upadate command for blade does not work

Siegfried76 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:31:24 GMT

Thanks a lot, so i've to shut down the servers before i upgrade it.
And when i'll power on the servers after firmware upgrade, there's no problems?

Regards,

Siegfried