Brocade Communications Systems IP250 Serial firmware update and activation for NOS devices

26 Serial firmware update and activation for NOS devices

Serial firmware update and activation for NOS devices

With Network OS release 4.0, you can update and activate firmware on an entire cluster (either logical chassis mode or fabric cluster mode), on selected nodes in the cluster, or on nodes in standalone mode, by performing the following steps.

1.Click the IP tab in the upper-left corner of the Management application.

2.Select Ethernet Fabrics from the view list on the Product List toolbar.

Cluster node members (or root node) are displayed, depending on your configuration.

3.Select the desired node or nodes for firmware updates and activation.

4.Right-click the highlighted nodes, then select Firmware > Firmware Management.

NOTE

If you are performing a firmware activation (but not a serial update) on only one node, you can highlight this node, then perform a right-click and select Firmware > Firmware Activate. If this is the only action you want to perform, you are done and do not need to continue with the steps below.

5.In the Firmware Management dialog box, click the Unified Firmware Images tab.

6.Click Update.

7.From the Hardware Type list, select VDX.

8.Use the Serial Update and Firmware Activate check boxes as desired. For example:

•You can select both boxes and enable the Firmware Activate check box to activate firmware on each node in a serial process.

•You can leave the Serial Update check box clear and enable the Firmware Activate check box to activate firmware on each node in a parallel process.

•You can select the Serial Update check box and leave the Firmware Activate check box unselected to begin the firmware download serially on selected nodes while delaying firmware activation on each node.

9.Click Next.

10.Follow any additional online instructions, and the procedure(s) that you selected begin.

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