HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition System Requirements (TK981-96010, May 2014)

Storage systems requirements

6 Storage systems requirements

To use Device Manager or Tiered Storage Manager to manage storage systems, you need storage

system management tools and software.

6-1 Updating the microcode or firmware

If you want to update the microcode or firmware of a storage system, follow the procedure below.

While the microcode or firmware is being updated, do not change the configuration by, for example,

refreshing the storage system or performing path operations.

To update the microcode or firmware:

1. Make sure that no Device Manager refresh or setup operations are being executed on the

target storage system.

You need to ensure that operations such as adding or removing storage, creating or deleting

LDEVs, and setting the host mode have finished.

NOTE:

You do not need to stop the Device Manager server.

2. Temporarily change the settings in the property file so that the Device Manager database is not

updated while the microcode or firmware is being updated.

Change the property settings in the server.properties file as follows:

○ Change the setting for

the server.dispatcher.daemon.configUpdate.detection.interval property

to 0.

○ Change the setting for the server.dispatcher.daemon.autoSynchro.doRefresh

property to false.

3. Update the microcode or firmware.

During the update, an error might be output to the trace log or error log because of storage

system polling. This error will not be output after the microcode is changed successfully.

4. Set the SVP tuning parameters, and then restart the SVP.

5. For P9500 or XP24000/XP20000, restart the Device Manager server.

6. Manually refresh the storage system.

7. Restore the property settings that you changed in step 2.

6-2 XP7

The following table lists the prerequisite firmware versions and software products.

See the manual of each software product when necessary.

Table 6-1 Prerequisite firmware versions and software products (for XP7)

Prerequisite firmware versions

Prerequisite software products