• Any activities being performed on the server through the KVM console and vMedia are interrupted.
• Any monitoring or IPMI polling is interrupted.
Outage Impact of an Adapter Firmware Upgrade
Ifyou activatethe firmware for an adapter and do not configure the Set Startup Version Only option, you
causethe following outageimpacts and disruptions:
• The server reboots.
• Server trafficis disrupted.
Firmware Upgrades through Service Profiles
Youcan use service profiles to upgrade the server and adapter firmware, including the BIOS on the server,
bydefining the following policies and including them in the service profile associated with a server:
• Host Firmware Package policy
• Management Firmware Package policy
Youcannot upgrade the firmware on an I/O module, fabric interconnect, or Cisco UCS Manager through
serviceprofiles. You must upgrade the firmware on those endpoints directly.
Note

Host Firmware Package

Thispolicy enables you tospecify a setof firmwareversions that make up thehost firmware package (also
knownas the host firmware pack). The host firmware includes the following firmware for server andadapter
endpoints:
•Adapter
•BIOS
•BoardController
•FCAdapters
•HBAOption ROM
•StorageController
Youcan include more than one type of firmware in the same host firmware package. For example, a host
firmwarepackage can include both BIOSfirmware and storage controllerfirmware or adapter firmware
fortwo differentmodels of adapters. However, you can only have one firmware version with the same
type,vendor, and model number. The system recognizes which firmware version is required for an endpoint
andignores allother firmware versions.
Tip
Thefirmware package is pushed to allservers associated with service profiles that include this policy.
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