topic Re: Firmware Update process in Data Center (SLX)

Firmware Update process

Russ — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:56:51 GMT

Hi,

I’m upgrading some VDX6740’s soon, and this will be the first time upgrading Brocade for me and I would like to clarify some confusion I’ve got from the documentation.

The release notes and the upgrade guide talks about running the firmware download command on the individual switches in logical cluster mode but what is giving me grief is the file option. The documentation in many examples quote the file to download as release.plist. I’ve gone looking for release.plist and it’t buried in sub-directories SWBD1000,SWBD1001,SWBD1002,SWBD1004,SWBD1005,SWBD1006 . . . . . etc.

So which directory am I to specify in my download “directory /” firmware download command?

firmware download logical-chassis scp host x.x.x.x user ****** password ******** directory /VDX6740-Firmware/?????? file ????? rbridge-id 3,5

Thanks.

Re: Firmware Update process

Michael_Andreas — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:25:23 GMT

Hi Russ,

just state the Directory of the firmeware version you try to upgrade too.

in the example below upgrade to nos7.2.0b

firmware download logical-chassis scp host x.x.x.x user ****** password ******** directory /VDX6740-Firmware/nos7.2.0b rbridge-id 3,5

Regards

Michael

Re: Firmware Update process

Mick_Day — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:25:33 GMT

Hi Russ,

If you use the directory option in the firmware download command there is no need to specify a file. As long as the directory points to the root directory of unzipped the firmware.

The command as per your syntax is simply:

firmware download logical-chassis scp host x.x.x.x user ****** password ******** directory <directory containing firmware> rbridge-id 3,5

Also if you are upgrading a major version i.e. NOS 5.x to NOS 6.x or NOS 6.x to NOS 7.x etc. you will need to specify the coldboot option in the firmware download command.

Re: Firmware Update process

Yulia_Abitbul — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:11:42 GMT

Hi Russ

Check this article, for clarification: https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/Q_A/How-to-upgrade-VDX-firmware

If you upgrade with ftp, you can mark “nos7.2.0” as root folder on ftp, in this case you can only use “/” for directory and command will look like that:

firmware download ftp host 1.1.1.1 user username password password directory / coldboot

or

firmware download default-config ftp host 1.1.1.1 user username password password directory /

Re: Firmware Update process

Russ — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 05:10:42 GMT

That’s fantastic thank you all.

Have one more question, I need to upgrade from 7.0.1x to 7.4.x. Can I make the jump in one firmware upgrade or I should incrementally go through the releases to get to 7.4.x?

Thanks,

Re: Firmware Update process

Yulia_Abitbul — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:39:11 GMT

To preserve configuration:

NOS7.0.1x to NOS7.1.0b with “coldboot” (reload) option
NOS7.1.0b to NOS7.2.0d with “coldboot” (reload) option
NOS7.2.0d to NOS7.3.0a with “coldboot” (reload) option
NOS7.3.0a to NOS7.4.0a with “coldboot” (reload) option
NOS7.4.0a to NOS7.4.1 with “coldboot” (reload) option

firmware download ftp host 1.1.1.1 user username password password directory / coldboot

With default-config option you can jump from 7.0.1 to 7.4

firmware download default-config ftp host 1.1.1.1 user username password password directory /

If you have big cluster check this article: https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/How_To/How-to-perform-VCS-Fabric-Multi-Version-Upgrade

Re: Firmware Update process

Russ — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:58:23 GMT

Thanks for you help and advice all.