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Chapter 13. Maintenance and Troubleshooting 

Draft Document for Review January 29, 2013 12:52 pm

You can upgrade a drive by downloading and applying firmware updates by using the 
command-line interface (CLI). The time required to perform drive upgrade varies depending 
on the number of drives to be upgraded and the capacity of these drives. You need to plan 
your drive firmware upgrade task accordingly.

This procedure upgrades firmware on a drive that is in the control enclosure or in the 
expansion enclosures. If the upgrade would cause any volumes to go offline, the force option 
is required.

To upgrade drive firmware, follow the following procedure:

1. Run the following command for the drive that you are upgrading

If any volumes are returned, continuing with this procedure takes the volumes offline. To 
avoid losing access to data, resolve any redundancy errors to remove this problem before 
you continue with the upgrade procedure.

2. Locate the firmware upgrade file at the following website:

www.ibm.com/storage/support/flexsystemFlex System /v7000

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This website also provides a link to the Software Upgrade Test Utility. This utility indicates 
if any of your drives are not running at the latest level of firmware.

3. Using scp or pscp, copy the firmware upgrade file and the Software Upgrade Test Utility 

package to the /home/admin/upgrade directory by using the management IP address.

Command: lsdependentvdisks -drive drive_id