Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Using UNIX Commands
- Typographic Conventions
- Shell Prompts
- Related Documentation
- Accessing Sun Documentation Online
- Sun Welcomes Your Comments
- New Features
- Features, Benefits, and Products
- SAN 4.0 Device Names
- On-Demand Node Creation
- Fabric Connection of Hosts
- Cascading of Switches
- Higher Realized Bandwidth
- Support of Multiple Protocols
- Support for More, Heterogeneous Storage Devices
- Support for New Hardware and Software
- Software and Hardware Upgrade
- Building Blocks for More Complex Topologies
- Overall Installation Order
- Configuring the Switch Ethernet Port
- Installing SAN Software for the First Time
- Upgrading Existing SAN Software
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▼ To Download Patches Using PatchPro
Interactive
1. At http://sunsolve.sun.com, select Patches from the menu at the left.
2. From the pulldown search menu select Storage Product.
The PatchPro page appears.
3. Select Network Storage Products.
The PatchPro Interactive page appears.
4. Select the PatchPro Interactive link.
5. Select StorEdge SAN 4.0 Release, if you have a SANbox2, or Brocade SAN
Release.
6. At the bottom of the page, click Generate Patch List.
A list of required patches in the correct installation order appears.
7. Download the patches.
▼ Preparing to Upgrade the Software
If you have multiple hosts on your SAN, you can upgrade them simultaneously or
one at a time without affecting your SAN environment. Hosts that are not being
upgraded will not be affected during the upgrade. You can upgrade the host
software one host at a time or several hosts in parallel.
Be aware that you may lose formerly supported devices if you continue.
Caution – Your system will be unavailable to users and the SAN during the
upgrade procedure.
The order in which the SAN components should be upgraded follows:
1. Familiarize yourself with the required software components, versions and
patches.
See Chapter 4, TABLE 3-1, “Minimum Software Component Versions and Patches” on
page 11.
2. Back up all data.