FW 07.01.02/HAFM SW 08.06.00 HP StorageWorks Director Release Notes (AA-RTDVH-TE, August 2005)

• EWS User Manual. This provides procedures for downloading ﬁrmware to the

switch or director.

• EWS online help. This provides procedures for downloading ﬁrmware to the

switch or director.

Downgrading directly to a release before 06.00.00 from 07.01.02 -4 is not allowed. To

downgrade to a release before 06.00.00, you must ﬁrst downgrade to 06.YY.ZZ.

Upgrades and downgrades are supported only from one major release to the next, such

as from 06.xx.xx to 07.01.02-4. If EWS is used for upgrades and downgrades, and this

rule is not followed, errors o ccur and there may be a disruption to attached devices.

Downgrading to release 6.0 with the Preferred Pa th feature con ﬁgured could cause loss

of this function. HP recommends that Preferred Path be disabled before downgrading.

To do this, d eselect the check box for Enable Preferred Path in the Conﬁgure Preferred

Paths dialog box.

NOTE:

The D irector 2/140 and the Edge Switch 2/24 cannot be downgraded earlier than

04.01.00, and the Edge Switch 2/12 cannot be downgraded earlier than 05.05.00.

If a Director 2/140 in a multiswitch fabric is downgraded earlier than 06.02.00, ISLs

could become segmented if there are any other switches in the fabric operating with a

ﬁrmware version earlier than 06.01.00. To prevent this situation, downgrade all Director

2/140s in the fabric to 06.01.00 b efore downgrading any products in the fabric to

05.xx.xx. This problem only exists with Director 2/140s in the fabric. HAFM displays a

warning message if a downgrade from 06.02.00 is attempted, but you can continue

with the downgrade if desired.

NOTE:

The warning message is displayed when downgrading any model from 0 6.02.00, but

only applies to downgrade op erations for the Director 2/140.

Firmware downgrades should not be performed using EWS and Internet Explorer

v5.00.3315.1000x. If this o peration is performed, the download op eration m ay not

complete and may eventually time-out leaving the switch with the previous version of

ﬁrmware .