Physical View Pane; Upgrading Esm And Controller Firmware - IBM System Storage DCS Series Installation And Migration Manual

With gen2 controllers, hard disk drive and storage enclosure
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Controller in Enclosure 0, Slot A
Status: Online
Current configuration
Firmware version: 06.10.07.00
Appware version: 06.10.07.00
Bootware version: 06.10.07.00
NVSRAM version: 1722F600R910V05
Drives
ESM

Physical View pane

Select a procedure to view the firmware level from the Physical View pane of the
Storage Subsystem Management window.
To obtain the controller firmware level:
To obtain the ESM firmware and drive enclosure component firmware levels:

Upgrading ESM and controller firmware

Use the information in this section to upgrade the ESM and controller firmware in
the source and target storage subsystems before you start the migration procedure.
To upgrade ESM and controller firmware, complete the following steps:
1. Upgrade the DS Storage Manager software to the latest version. For more
2. Upgrade the storage enclosure ESM firmware. You can use DS Storage Manager
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v Firmware level
v ESM card firmware level
Right-click the Controller icon in the Physical View pane of the Storage
Subsystem Management window and select Properties. The Controller
Enclosure properties window opens, and the properties for that controller
are shown.
You must perform this step for each individual controller.
1. In the Physical View pane of the Storage Subsystem Management
window, click the Drive Enclosure Component icon (the icon farthest
to the right). The Drive Enclosure Component Information window
opens.
2. Click the ESM icon in the left pane. The ESM information is shown in
the right pane of the Drive Enclosure Component Information window.
3. Locate the firmware level of each ESM in the drive enclosure.
You must perform this step for each storage enclosure.
information, see the applicable IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager
Installation and Support Guide. To access the latest document, go to
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/disk/.
Note: To maintain compatibility, update the multi-path software on the host
server to the level that is supported by or released with the controller firmware
that you intend to download. For details about software compatibility, see
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/config/ssic/index.jsp.
and controller firmware to update the ESM firmware while the storage
subsystem is processing I/O from the host server if the ESM firmware
download is performed to only one storage enclosure at a time. If you select

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