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тАО07-14-2008 07:17 AM
тАО07-14-2008 07:17 AM
upgrade Brocade Director and edge switches - what order?
What order do we perform the upgrades? Director first and then Edge or the other way?
We have had two different opinions from local HP FS on this.
Also, has anyone upgraded to the lastest 6.x FOS yet?
Thanks,
Patti
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тАО07-14-2008 07:39 AM
тАО07-14-2008 07:39 AM
Re: upgrade Brocade Director and edge switches - what order?
if you have redundant fabrics it is good to do only one whole fabric firmware upgrade in a time to have some time for the evalutation if everything works fine. For the firmware uprade, you have the choice of two firmware lines:
a) 5.3.1a -> the "stable" line latest supported (preferred for the production)
b)6.1.0 -> the new line latest supported
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тАО07-14-2008 11:18 PM
тАО07-14-2008 11:18 PM
Re: upgrade Brocade Director and edge switches - what order?
I performed a Fabric OS upgrade recently. I upgraded the director first, then the edges. I upgraded only one fabric at a time, and waited until all switches in one fabric were upgraded before starting on the 2nd fabric.
I haven't installed 6.x.x yet, but it's planned. Just remember you have to upgrade in small steps: you can only go one or two minor revisions in one go.
5.0.x -> 5.1.x or 5.2.x -> 5.3.x -> 6.0.x -> 6.1.x
Regards,
Stephen
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тАО07-15-2008 04:56 AM
тАО07-15-2008 04:56 AM
Re: upgrade Brocade Director and edge switches - what order?
We will only upgrade one side of the fabric at a time, and we do know that we have to do it in small steps.
I also found out that we cannot go to 6.x because it does not support our Brocade 3900 or 2/16 Switches!
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