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тАО03-09-2010 10:41 PM
тАО03-09-2010 10:41 PM
EVA6100 Drive Firmware upgrade?
I have an EVA6100 with 8 cabinets(112 drives). The firmware revisions reported (even though all drives are either brand new or one year old) vary as follows:
18 disks have HP00,
52 disks have HP01,
1 disk has HP02,
30 disks have HP03,
1 disk has HP05,
10 disks have HP06.
The only firmware updates that have ever been done were the HP installation services when the unit was new and the additional disks added recently by HP.
We are about to receive a new EVA6400 and I have been told that we need to have the firmware on the current unit updated to the latest before adding the new unit to our SAN.
Does the drives' firmware versions need to all be updated? Can I do the firmware update myself? Can the firmware updates be done while the unit is on-line and under load or do we need to schedule an outage?
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тАО03-09-2010 10:47 PM
тАО03-09-2010 10:47 PM
Re: EVA6100 Drive Firmware upgrade?
You can do it online, but I'd recommend picking a quiet time.
And yes you can do it, it's fairly painless.
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тАО03-10-2010 12:00 AM
тАО03-10-2010 12:00 AM
Re: EVA6100 Drive Firmware upgrade?
Now, don't expect that all disk drives will end up with one common revision level (e.g. "HP07"). There are often different images for different model numbers and an upgrade is only made available when it is necessary, not to create one common version number.
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тАО03-10-2010 10:12 AM
тАО03-10-2010 10:12 AM
Re: EVA6100 Drive Firmware upgrade?
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тАО03-11-2010 04:08 PM
тАО03-11-2010 04:08 PM
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тАО03-12-2010 07:40 AM
тАО03-12-2010 07:40 AM
Re: EVA6100 Drive Firmware upgrade?
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тАО03-12-2010 08:33 AM
тАО03-12-2010 08:33 AM
Re: EVA6100 Drive Firmware upgrade?
There are different disks with same specs (size, rpm), all are the same product, but different models with different firmware.
The disk FW bundle has an index file with details, e.g.
BF07258243 HP03 BF07258243_HP03.lod
(this is version HP03)
BF072D6186 HP06 BF072D6186_HP06.lod
(this is version HP06)
for 2 disks with same capacity and same rpm.
Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.
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тАО04-20-2010 11:11 PM
тАО04-20-2010 11:11 PM
Re: EVA6100 Drive Firmware upgrade?
As it turns out, to the HP tech's surprise, only one drive required a firmware update. Every other drive was current. Shows that the firmware numbers are certainly all over the place for different drive internal models.