Release Notes for Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 for HP, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(50)SE and Later

Release Notes for the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 for HP, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(50)SE and Later

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Upgrading the Switch Software

Hardware Requirements

Table 2 lists the minimum hardware requirements for running the device manager.

Software Requirements

These are the supported operating systems and browsers for the device manager:

• Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows Server 2003

• Internet Explorer 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, Firefox 1.5, 2.0 or later

The device manager verifies the browser version when starting a session, and it does not require a

plug-in.

Upgrading the Switch Software

These are the procedures for downloading software. Before downloading software, read this section for

important information:

• “Finding the Software Version and Feature Set” section on page 3

• “Deciding Which Files to Use” section on page 4

• “Archiving Software Images” section on page 4

• “Upgrading a Switch by Using the Device Manager” section on page 5

• “Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI” section on page 5

• “Recovering from a Software Failure” section on page 6

Finding the Software Version and Feature Set

The Cisco IOS image is stored as a bin file in a directory that is named with the Cisco IOS release.

A subdirectory contains the files needed for web management. The image is stored on the system board

flash device (flash:).

You can use the show version privileged EXEC command to see the software version that is running on

your switch. The second line of the display shows the version.

You can also use the dir filesystem: privileged EXEC command to see the directory names of other

software images that you might have stored in flash memory.

Table 2 Minimum Hardware Requirements

Processor Speed DRAM Number of Colors Resolution Font Size

233 MHz minimum

1. We recommend 1 GHz.

512 MB

2. We recommend 1 GB DRAM.

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