H06.16 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

NOTE: HP recommends that you reset and reintegrate each NonStop Blade Element
one at a time. (The Reset action power cycles the NonStop Blade Element.) Resetting all
NonStop Blade Elements at the same time will take four processors offline.
Do not manually power cycle the processors. Doing so will leave the NonStop Blade
Elements and NonStop Blade Complex in an incomplete state.
The shadow firmware image that has been updated is now the running flash image. The
previous running image is now the shadow image.
d. Repeat steps a. through c. to update the new shadow image on all NonStop Blade
Elements or one NonStop Blade Element at a time until all the NonStop Blade Elements
are done.
e. Repeat steps a. through d. for the other NonStop Blade Complexes.
If Reverting to H06.03 or H06.04 from This RVU
If you are falling back to the H06.03 or H06.04 RVU, then after loading the previous RVU, finish
loading the rest of the NonStop Blade Complex firmware, as described in step 6c.
CAUTION: If your intent is to remain on your current RVU, the NonStop Blade Complex firmware
must be reverted back as described in this section.
CAUTION: Do not power cycle any NonStop Blade Element until the firmware update is complete.
If you interrupt or stop the procedure before the firmware update has completed, the NonStop
Blade Element firmware will be left in an incomplete and inconsistent state. Also, if there is an
interruption during the firmware update, do not reset or power cycle the NonStop Blade Elements.
Instead, immediately start the procedure from the beginning.
To start and complete the Blade Complex Firmware Update guided procedure:
CAUTION: Ensure that the system is running the previous RVU before starting this procedure.
1. In the tree pane of the OSM Service Connection, right-click the Blade Complex resource.
2. From the shortcut menu, select Actions.
3. When the Actions window appears, select Firmware Update from the Available Actions list.
4. Click Perform action.
5. In the guided procedures interface, click Start in the Procedure Tasks List pane.
6. Follow and complete the guided procedure dialog boxes using this summary:
a. Update NonStop Blade Complex (NSBC) firmware:
1) Using the OSM Service Connection and the Blade Complex Firmware Update guided
procedure, complete the dialog boxes and update the shadow firmware on each
NonStop Blade Element. The subvolume for each firmware element to be updated
must be changed to point to the SYSnn of the RVU to which you are falling back.
NOTE: Update all NonStop Blade Elements in the complex at this time.
2) Using the Switch Blade Element Firmware Images dialog box, select Yes.
CAUTION: Do not reset the NonStop Blade Elements after this step.
3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the other NonStop Blade Complexes.
b. Halt and then power cycle all processors:
1) Using OSM Low-Level Link, halt all the logical processors in the system.
2) Power cycle all processors as follows:
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