Firmware bundles must be uploaded to UCP Advisor before you can upgrade the firmware on your devices. The firmware bundle list retains only one firmware bundle at a time.
When you upload a firmware bundle to a UCP system with a local gateway, it is also copied to all the remote gateways to keep them synchronized. The firmware bundle is stored in the /var/ucpadvisor/firmware/bundle folder of each remote gateway to reduce the firmware upgrade time of the devices on the remote gateway.
Uploading the firmware bundle takes about fifteen minutes. Synchronization with the remote gateways occurs simultaneously in batches of three, which also takes fifteen minutes per batch. If you add a new remote gateway while the synchronization is still in progress or after it has completed, the firmware bundle will be synchronized the next time you add devices and upgrade the firmware.
- Download the firmware bundle for your version of the UCP Advisor software from the Hitachi Support Connect portal. A Hitachi login credential is required.
- To upgrade server I/O card firmware, you must have the server BMC and ESXi details onboarded in the UCP Advisor inventory and you must have the ESXi host added to the vCenter inventory.
- Verify that the filemanager, nfs, and httpd services are running on all the remote gateways. Log on to the remote gateway as a ucpadmin user and enter the following commands:
For the filemanager service:
sudo docker ps -a
For the httpd service:systemctl status httpd
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Select the firmware bundle ZIP file that you downloaded as a prerequisite to this
procedure, and then click Upload.
The firmware bundle will upload to UCP Advisor, and then appear in the firmware bundle list.
For detailed information about the device and I/O card firmware versions included in a bundle, click the Actions list, and then select View Details. The Devices, DS Series PCI Cards, and HA Series PCI Cards tabs display the firmware version details.
For the latest supported versions of the I/O card firmware, see Supported I/O cards: DS120/DS220/DS225/DS240 and DS120/DS220 G2 server models.