HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 7.3 Release Notes

1. Use VC Domain Maintenance to perform a firmware update to an intermediary version that
is supported by the new firmware first. For example, if the current VC Domain Group firmware
mode is 3.15 and the new firmware is 3.70, update the firmware on all VC Domains from
the VC Domain Group to 3.5x or 3.6x.
2. After the firmware for all VC Domains has been updated to 3.5x or 3.6x, upgrade the VC
Domain Group firmware mode to 3.5x.
NOTE: VC 3.5x and VC 3.6x share the 3.5x VC Domain Group firmware mode. There is
no separate 3.6x VC Domain Group firmware mode.
3. From the VC Domains page in the VCEM GUI, select all VC Domains (which have just been
updated to 3.5x or 3.6x) from the VC Domain Group and the VC Domain Firmware Update...
GUI button. Then use the VCSU to update the VC firmware for each of the selected VC Domains.
4. Optional—Update the VC Domain Group firmware mode to 3.7x after the VC firmware on
all the VC Domains in the VC Domain Group has been updated to VC firmware 3.70.
The following steps are an alternate procedure to update from VC firmware 3.15-3.18 to VC
firmware 3.70, 4.01 , and 4.1x or later:
1. Remove the entire VC Domain Group from VCEM.
2. Update the VC firmware for all VC Domains directly to 3.70 or later .
3. Recreate the VC Domain Group using the updated VC Domains.
See the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager User Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/
insightmanagement/docs for information on removing VC Domain Groups, updating VC firmware
and creating VC Domain Groups.
If you are using HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration to manage logical
servers attached to server profiles, some additional steps may be necessary after removing and
recreating the VC Domain Group such as refreshing logical server resources and changing the
logical server associations from the old VC Domain Group to the new VC Domain Group. For
more information, see the HP Matrix Operating Environment Logical Server Management User
Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
Incompatible VC Domain Group status after upgrade to VCEM 7.1.1 or later with
unsupported VC FW mode and FW version
If you upgrade to VCEM 7.1.1 or later from a VCEM configuration that has an unsupported FW
mode or VC FW that is not version 3.3x or later, the VC Domain Group and VC Domain will
display the Incompatible Firmware status and the following error message will appear:
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) detected there is one or more
VC Domain Group running on an unsupported firmware mode during the
upgrade. VCEM has marked all affected VC Domain Groups and VC domain(s)
with an 'incompatible firmware' status. VCEM will be unable to perform
server profile operations that belong to these marked VC domains. To
resolve this, perform the following steps in VCEM:
1. For each VC domain marked with an 'incompatible firmware' status:
a. Enable the VC domain Maintenance operation.
b. Upgrade the managed VC domain to (at least) the minimum VCEM supported VC firmware
version.
c. Complete the VC domain Maintenance operation.
2. For each VC Domain Group marked with an 'incompatible firmware' status: Upgrade the VC
Domain Group firmware mode to (at least) the minimum supported by VCEM.
In order to update the VC domain firmware version, you must check the HP Insight Management
Support Matrix for VCEM supported VC firmware versions.
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