Updating firmware for logical interconnects

Firmware activation options allow you to maintain network availability by always keeping one path up for production traffic and reduce the outages due to human errors. You also have the option of staging the firmware for later activation. You can activate the staged firmware on an individual interconnect or on all interconnects.

You have the following options when updating firmware based on the logical interconnect:

Option

Description

Update firmware (stage + activate)

Stages (uploads) the selected firmware to the secondary flash memory on the interconnect, and then activates the firmware as the baseline. At the end of this operation, all member interconnects are running the same firmware baseline and are compliant with one another.

This option and parallel activation affects the connectivity to and from the servers until the activation is complete, but does update the firmware in the shortest time.

Stage firmware for later activation

Stages (uploads) the selected firmware to the secondary flash memory on the interconnect, but does not activate the firmware. You can activate the firmware at a later time.

This option allows manual sequencing of the firmware activation and is the preferred approach to minimize service interruption.

Activate firmware

Activates the selected staged firmware.

When updating firmware based on the logical interconnect, if one or more interconnects are already running the targeted firmware version, HPE OneView excludes those interconnects from the firmware update.

Force installation

Requires (forces) firmware update on every member interconnect regardless of its current installed version.

To install an older firmware version than the version contained in the SPP, you must select the Force installation option to downgrade the firmware. You might want to install older firmware if the newer firmware is known to cause a problem in your environment.

CAUTION:

Forcing a firmware downgrade might leave a server unstable.

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