Upgrading a production environment in a Blade environment

[pcharsle]

We are planning how to update our production software environment that runs on blades. Upgrading the software and OS is complex and will take some time.

Our production environment runs on 3 blades

We have another 3 blades available which we currently use for testing

To avoid production downtime, is the following possible?

1) Switch the production software to the other 3 blades. Users would only notice a decrease in performance since the other 3 blades are of a lower specification.

2) When we have upgraded, switch back to the production blades.

Upgrading production environments is a common problem. Can HPs blade technology make this easier by enabling the above process?

[Server-Support]

Hi @pcharsle so What sort of update that you're trying to perform here ?

HP Blade firmware update using HP SPP or the actual Operating System on the Blade ?