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9 Firmware download on an enterprise-class platform ecp:admin> hashow Local CP (Slot 5, CP0): Active, Warm Recovered Remote CP (Slot 6, CP1): Standby, Healthy HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized CP blades must be synchronized and running Fabric OS v6.0.0 or later to provide a nondisruptive download. If the two CP blades are not synchronized, enter the haSyncStart command to synchronize them. If the CPs still are not synchronized, contact your switch service provider. For further troubleshooting, refer to the Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide. 8. Enter the firmwareDownload command and respond to the interactive prompts. 9. At the "Do you want to continue [y/n]" prompt, enter y. The firmware is downloaded to one CP blade at a time, beginning with the standby CP blade. During the process, the active CP blade fails over. After the firmware is downloaded, a firmware commit starts on both CP blades. The entire firmware download and commit process takes approximately 17 minutes. If an AP blade is present: At the point of the failover an autoleveling process is activated. Autoleveling is triggered when the active CP detects a blade that contains a different version of the firmware, regardless of which version is older. Autoleveling downloads firmware to the AP blade, swaps partitions, reboots the blade, and copies the new firmware from the primary partition to the secondary partition. If you have multiple AP blades, they are updated simultaneously; however, the downloads can occur at different rates. Autoleveling takes place in parallel with the firmware download being performed on the CPs, but does not impact performance. Fibre Channel traffic is not disrupted during autoleveling, but GbE traffic on AP blades may be affected. ecp:admin> firmwaredownload Type of Firmware (FOS, SAS, or any application) [FOS]: Server Name or IP Address: 10.1.2.3 User Name: userfoo File Name: /home/userfoo/v6.4.0 Network Protocol (1-auto-select, 2-FTP, 3-SCP) [1]: Password: Checking version compatibility... Version compatibility check passed. The following AP blades are installed in the system. Slot Name Versions Traffic Disrupted 3 FC4-16IP v6.4.0 GigE 2 FA4-18 v6.4.0 Virtualization 4 FR4-18i v6.4.0 None 10 FR4-18i v6.4.0 None This command will upgrade the firmware on both CPs and all AP blade(s) above. If you want to upgrade firmware on a single CP only, please use -s option. You may run firmwaredownloadstatus to get the status of this" command. This command will cause a warm/non-disruptive boot on the active CP, but will require that existing telnet, secure telnet or SSH sessions be restarted. 198 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 53-1001763-02