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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 Preparing to Upgrade Your Storage Management Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Upgrading the Storage Management Software and the Controller Firmware . . . 1
Storage Management Software Packages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Installation Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Checking the Current Version of the Storage Management Software . . . . . 5
Supported Controller Trays and Controller-Drive Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Maximum Number of Drives and Volumes for Controller-Drive Trays and
Controller Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Supported Storage Array Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2 Upgrading Trays in the Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Upgrading Options for Supported Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Upgrading Cache Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Upgrading Cache Memory for the CE7900 Controller Tray . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Upgrading Cache Memory for the E2600 Controller-Drive Trays . . . . . . . 21
Upgrading Cache Memory for the E5400 Controller-Drive Trays . . . . . . . 39
Upgrading Host Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Upgrading a Host Interface Card in the CE7900 Controller Tray . . . . . . . 59
Upgrading a Host Interface Card in the E2600 Controller-Drive Trays . . . 67
Upgrading a Host Interface Card in the E5400 Controller-Drive Trays . . . 83
Chapter 3 Using the Firmware Upgrade Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chapter 4 Upgrade Instructions for the HP-UX OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
System Requirements for HPUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Installing the Storage Management Software on the HP-UX OS . . . . . . . . . . 106
Checking the Installation on the HP-UX OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Uninstalling the Storage Management Software on the HP-UX OS . . . . . . . . 109