958-000284-007, March 2005)

A small number of early-shipped Surestore Director FC-64 units may receive one of the

following messages when they upgrade to firmware 05.02.00-13:

• HAFM—Firmware cannot be loaded due to insufficient CTP

memory.

• EWS—File System Error: Insufficient memory for new

firmware version.

This occurs only in certain units with C TP cards. Units with CTP2 cards do not have

this issue.

If you get one of these messages during the upgrade, the firmware upgrade failed, but

the unit continues working with the existing firmware without an interruption in service.

The upgrade process checks for sufficient memory before activating the new firmware

image. The firmware upgrade does not complete without sufficient memory. Please

contact HP Customer Support if you receive this message.

Upgradingfirmwareonanedgeswitchfrom04.xx.xxto05.xx.xx

An issue has been identified in release 04.xx.xx if the contents of the nonvolatile

storage (NVR A M) on the CTP become corrupted. Once the configuration has been

loaded, this corruption is not detected until an IPL/IML, power cycle, or firmware code

load. If the NVRAM in the CTP has corrupted conte

nts,thefirmwareloadcancausethe

configuration to reset to factory defaults, which could cause a system outage.

Edge switch products already running 05.01.00 or later continually validate the

NVRAM configuration, so risk of an outage is extremely low . For edge switch products

running an earlier version of firmware, the risk of an outage increases due to the

NVRAM issue. If an outage compromises system integrity, HP recommends that the edge

switch firmware upgrade be a scheduled maintenance action that anticipates the failure

of switch connectivity. This issue was corrected with firmware 05.02.00-13 and later.

To safely upgrade firmware on a edge switch, perform the following:

1. Upgrade HAFM software on the HAFM server/appliance to 07.01.00 (minimum).

2. Download firmware 05.02.00-13 using the Firmware Librar y option under the

Product M anager Maintenance menu.

3. Back up the edge switch configuration using the Backup & Restore

Conﬁguration option under the Product Ma nager Maintenance menu.

4. Upgrade the firmware to 05.02.00-13 on each edge switch using the Send option

on the Firmware Library dialog box.