Specifications

ExtremeWare 7.0 Release Notes 21
2 Upgrading to ExtremeWare 7.0.1
This chapter contains the following sections:
• “Staying Current” on page 21
• “Upgrading ExtremeWare” on page 21
• “Downgrading Switches” on page 26
CAUTION
You can only load ExtremeWare 7.0 (or later) on a switch running ExtremeWare 6.2.2b56 (or later).
Staying Current
For support purposes, Extreme Networks recommends operating the most current General Deployment
(GD) release of ExtremeWare. New releases of ExtremeWare are usually released first as General
Availability (GA) releases. A GA release has undergone full regression testing and is supported by your
local ExtremeWorks Technical Assistance Center, but should be deployed with the understanding that it
is a not a GD release.
Extreme Networks does not recommend that customers perform a network-wide upgrade with any new
GA release. As a precaution, you should start with lab testing and edge installations before moving a
GA release to the core of networks with over 10,000 nodes.
If you are an Extreme Assist customer, the latest release and release notes are available through the
support login portion of the Tech Support web site at http://www.extremenetworks.com/
Upgrading ExtremeWare
You can only load ExtremeWare 7.0 on a switch running ExtremeWare 6.2.2b56 (or later). You can only
load ExtremeWare 6.2.2 on a switch running ExtremeWare 6.1.9 (or later). Each of these versions require
a different BootROM. Table 6 lists the BootROM required for each version of ExtremeWare.
Table 6: Required BootROM versions
ExtremeWare Version BootRom Version
ExtremeWare 7.0.0 through ExtremeWare 7.0.1 BootROM 7.8