Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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Chapter
9
Installing and Maintaining Firmware
In this chapter
•Firmware download process overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
•Preparing for a firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
•Firmware download on switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
•Firmware download on an enterprise-class platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
•Firmware download from a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
•SAS and SA applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
•FIPS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
•Test and restore firmware on switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
•Test and restore firmware on enterprise-class platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
•Validating a firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Firmware download process overview
Fabric OS v6.3.0 provides nondisruptive firmware installation.
This chapter refers to the following specific types of blades inserted into either the Brocade 48000
director or Brocade DCX and DCX-4S Backbone platforms:
• FC blades or port blades contain only Fibre Channel ports: Brocade FC4-16/32/48, FC10-6,
and FC8-16/32/48.
• AP blades contain extra processors and specialized ports: Brocade FR4-18i and FC4-16IP,
FA4-18, FCOE10-24, and FX8-24.
• CP blades have a control processor (CP) used to control the entire switch; they can be inserted
only into slots 5 and 6 on the Brocade 48000, slots 6 and 7 on the Brocade DCX, and slots 4
and 5 on the Brocade DCX-4S.
• CORE8 and CR4S-8 core blades provide ICL functionality between two Brocade DCX
Backbones. CORE8 blades can be inserted only into slots 5 and 8 on the Brocade DCX. CR4S-8
blades can be inserted only into slots 3 and 6 on the Brocade DCX-4S.
NOTE
For more information on troubleshooting a firmware download, refer to the Fabric OS
Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide.