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Upgrading Node Card(s) with the Chassis

Manager

For the procedure needed to upgrade node cards using the Chassis Manager GUI, refer to the Chassis

Manager User Guide.

Upgrading a New Fabric Controller Module

When you add a new fabric controller module to a production Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008, you must upgrade the new module so that it runs the same firmware as the existing module. If you neglect to upgrade the second fabric controller module, your Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008 will experience problems in the event of a failover because the failover will boot a different OS version.

The critical difference between this upgrade process and the standard upgrade process occurs when you force the Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008 to skip the standard controller module failover when you install and reboot. The instructions that follow assume that

You added the new fabric controller module to the Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008 as it ran.

You have not yet rebooted the chassis.

Upgrade a New Fabric Controller Module with the CLI

To upgrade the module, perform the following steps:

1.Launch a CLI session to your Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008 and log in as a user with administrative privileges.

Example

Login: super

Password: xxxxx

2.Enter the enable command to enter Privileged Execute mode.

Example

SFS-270> enable

SFS-270#

3.Enter the show card-inventorycommand to view the images that run on each fabric controller module (the devices in slots 11 and 12). If the images match, you do not need to upgrade the new management I/O module.

4.Enter the copy command with

the location and file name of the image file that you want to copy

the destination and file name for the file on your chassis

to copy an image file to your Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008.

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