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Preparing for OFM
In order to prepare your environment for OFM, you will need to upgrade the
firmware of the AMMs and blades, including the BMC, BIOS, and additional
expansion cards in your environment. In addition, optimum use of OFM requires
that you setup your blade environment to boot from SAN.
Important: UXSPs simplify the updating of all of your firmware. However, before
Upgrading firmware
Before you can use OFM, you must first update the firmware of the BladeCenter
and blades, including BMC, BIOS, and additional expansion cards in your
environment.
For a list of the latest firmware , see: Software and device drivers - IBM
BladeCenter
Steps to update AMM firmware using the AMM Web interface
1. Login to the AMM Web interface and select Firmware Update on the left pane,
2. On the Update MM Firmware page, click Browse to find the AMM flash file.
3. A separate Choose file window will open. Select the AMM flash file and click
4. Click Update button on the Update MM Firmware page and wait for the
5. Click Continue to actually perform the flash.
6. Once the flashing is complete, you must reboot the AMM.
On reboot, the new firmware will be active and the standby AMM firmware will
be automatically updated.
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IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager Installation and User's Guide
Table 7. Supported software - OFM-Advanced upgrade
Operating System
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
Microsoft Windows 2003 (SP1, SP2, R2)
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Up to SP4)
RHEL 3 (32-bit only; up to SP9)
RHEL 4 (up to SP6)
RHEL 5 with Xen 3.0 (up to SP1)
SLES 9 (up to SP4)
SLES 10 with Xen 3.0 (up to SP1)
you can upgrade your firmware on Emulex and Qlogic drivers, you
must ensure that these fiber channel cards are already installed and
operating properly. If you are not using UXSPs, follow the instructions
in "Steps to update firmware without an OS" on page 8.
under MM Control. The Update MM Firmware page will open in the right
pane.
Open. The AMM flash file will appear in the field next to the Browse button
on the Update MM Firmware page.
firmware to be uploaded to the AMM. If there is a standby MM installed, the
firmware on the standby MM will automatically update to the same level.
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