H06.07 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

Overview of Installing the H06.07 RVU
H06.07 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide—543449-001
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Managing Firmware in a NonStop Blade Complex
For more information on the NonStop advanced architecture (NSAA), see the NonStop
NS-Series Planning Guide.
Updating processor boot code is part of the Halted State Services (HSS) firmware,
which consists of HSS Main, Primitive State code (pState), SCSI firmware (ISP1040),
bootstrap (Diskboot), Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware, and
PAL/SAL firmware (IPF Firmware.) HSS provides interfaces compatible with existing
NonStop interfaces for RELOAD and RCVDUMP.
You use an OSM guided procedure, launched by performing the Firmware Update
action from the Blade Complex, to update the firmware for each Blade Element in the
complex.
On Integrity NonStop NS-series servers, the bootstrap code is part of the NonStop
Blade Element firmware and is, therefore, not on a disk. You update the disk bootstrap
code on all the bootable slices (that is, those that contain logical processor 0 and 1) by
using the Blade Complex Firmware Update procedure.
Table 1-3 lists the updateable NonStop Blade Complex firmware and the
recommended order for updating firmware through the guided procedure. (The Select
Logical processor One or more PEs from each NonStop Blade Element executing a
single instruction stream. A duplex processor (DMR) has two PEs
forming a logical processor. A triplex processor (TMR) has three
PEs. For example:
Logical
synchronization unit
(LSU)
The combination of the LSU logic board and the LSU optics adapter.
An LSU serves one logical processor.
Processor (Blade)
Complex
Two slices or Blade Elements (DMR) or three slices or Blade
Elements (TMR). An Integrity NonStop NS-series server includes up
to four processor (blade) complexes.
Term Description
Processor Element
NSBE
(Slice) A
P
E
A
0
P
E
A
1
P
E
A
3
NSBE
(Slice) B
P
E
B
0
P
E
B
1
P
E
B
3
NSBE
(Slice) C
P
E
C
0
P
E
C
1
P
E
C
3
TMR
Logical Processor
P
E
A
2
P
E
B
2
P
E
C
2
Blade Element
(Slice)
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