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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, Firmware, and NVSRAM . . . . . 1
Upgrading Controller Firmware and NVSRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Upgrading the ESM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Storage Management Software Packages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installation Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Checking the Current Version of the Storage Management Software . . . . . 6
Supported Controller-Drive Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Supported Storage Array Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2 Upgrade Instructions for the HP-UX OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System Requirements for HPUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing the Storage Management Software on the HP-UX OS . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Checking the Installation on the HP-UX OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Uninstalling the Storage Management Software on the HP-UX OS . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3 Upgrade Instructions for the Solaris OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Supported Components for Solaris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing the Storage Management Software on the Solaris OS . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Checking the Installation on the Solaris OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Uninstalling the Storage Management Software on the Solaris OS. . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 4 Upgrade Instructions for the Linux OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
System Requirements for Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
System Requirements for Linux with InfiniBand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing the Storage Management Software on the Linux OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Checking the Installation on the Linux OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Uninstalling Storage Management Software on the Linux OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30