Updating the Dell PowerVault 650F/651F/630F Drive Firmware on NetWare

Use the Dell OpenManage Command Line Interface (CLI) to update the hard-disk drive firmware in your Dell PowerVault 650F, 651F, or 630F systems when running Novell NetWare on the server.

The syntax for the CLI command is

load sys:\[OpenManage Directory]\omcli -d <device name>

firmware <volume:\path\filename> -r -d <e_d> <e_d> ...

where <volume:\path\filename> specifies the full pathname of the new firm- ware image on the server and where the variables are as follows:

-d <device name> — The name of the device being managed by the Dell OpenManage Data Managed Node for NetWare. <device name> is case sensitive.

-d disks — Downloads the hard-disk drive vendor firmware to the specified disks; disks specifies the physical hard-disk drives for the firmware download in any order. For a storage system with Fibre Channel hard-disk drives, disks has the format of <e_d>, where e is the enclosure number in hexidecimal and d is the disk number in the enclosure.

-r— Specifies that the storage system will perform a hard reboot after the firm- ware is downloaded. The default is no reboot.

NOTICES: You must enter the full pathname of the firmware file or the command might not be completed successfully.

Observe the following conditions when downloading hard-disk drive firm- ware on PowerVault 650F and 651F storage systems:

Disable the read cache and write cache.

Pause all host-generated I/O requests to the storage system.

If RAID 3 memory is assigned, it must be set to 2 megabytes (MB). If you set the RAID 3 memory to 0 MB, all RAID 3 LUNs will go to the ready state.

The following is an example of a CLI command to update drive firmware:

load sys:\dell\om\omcli -d V596-A2-D0:0 firmware

sys:\system\sw36de22.fdf -r -d 0_0 0_1 0_2 ...

Updating Dell PowerVault 650F and 651F Licensed Internal Code

The licensed internal code (LIC) (sometimes referred to as Flare) update may also include a programmable read-only memory (PROM) update for the storage proces- sors. When you install the LIC update, the storage processor tries to copy the LIC to reserved areas outside operating system control on several disk modules called

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650F, 630F, 651F specifications

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