C7000 OA Firmware upgrade

[waynesam]

Hi I have to upgrade the OA's on 19 C7000 the problem I have is that some of the OA's are v 2.10 and I am concerned about these going wrong what is the best way to do this could I go straight to v3.31 or will I need to upgrade in steps also what are the pre-requisits for the firmware upgrade I have searched loads of links but not found anything conclusive. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Wayne

[Johan Guldmyr]

Hello!

That's quite a project!

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/bladesystemupdate.html

has quite a lot of information. Seen that?

[waynesam]

Hi
Thanks for the link but what i need to know is some of the OA cards are on firmware 2.10 or 2.4 can I upgrade these straight to 3.30 or do I have to do them incrementally

Cheers

[gregersenj]

Yes 19 enclosures, is a project.

I belive you can go strait, but why don't you test it?
Pick an enclosure, of low importence.
If you got 2 OA's. Remove 1, and test on the other.

I have createt a document of my own notes, on things to beware of. I will post it on monday.

You also have to upgrade all the servers :)

If you're using HP SIM:
6.2 must be patched.
or upgrade to 6.3.

BR
/jag

[gregersenj]

Here's the notes that I have collected on issues.

Some may be obsolete. And there's most likely issues, that I'm not aware of.

Issue Broadcom and ESX 4.1 see vmware kb 1029368

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1029368 Broadcom nic.

See also kb 1029398 for a patch

Windows. ILo2  Fw 1.81 or older. Must upgrade Ilo driver first see:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?locale=en_US&objectID=c01802766

Windows Broadcom driver. Windows 2003, 2008. If Broadcom driver is older than ver. 4.6.16.0,

Then 4.6.16.0 must be installed first:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=3709945&prodSeriesId=2510357&swItem=MTX-64aadf41b8b44edbb5ec5d3f30&prodNameId=3288154&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=1

Re-enumeration  at BIOS upgrade

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01953720&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=2510357&prodTypeId=15351

Upgrade seq.

1. BIOS

2. ILO

3. PMC

4. OA

Inteconnect modules.

1, 2 and 3 done booting on the FW DVD. Then you don't need to think over the sequence.

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/c-class.html#tab3_content

Currently PSP 8.70 and FW DVD 9.30.

If VC is older than 1.34, then VC should be upgraded prior to OA.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02225412/c02225412.pdf

Page 16.

NIC 10Gbe: 5.2.22.0  > 6.0.60.0 >  6.2.16.0

OA 3.30 and HP SIM 6.2:

Install the HOTFIX  ( http://h18013.www1.hp.com/cpq-products/servers/management/hpsim/download.html ):

BR 

/jag

[Homer-run]

You can jump straight to OA firmware  3.30 but you will need to upgrade all your ILO's, Bios, VC modules etc...use the link posted and there is a matrix of what all firmware is required for OA 3.30.