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    Upgrading Brocade Switch Firmware

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    This document summarizes the process for upgrading the firmware on Brocade fibre channel switches. Key steps include downloading the new firmware files to an FTP server, using the firmwaredownload command on the switch to initiate the upgrade, checking the upgrade status and verifying the firmware version after completion. If upgrading from an earlier version than 7.4, an additional firmwarecommit step is required to commit the upgrade to both partitions.

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    Upgrading Brocade Switch Firmware

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    This document summarizes the process for upgrading the firmware on Brocade fibre channel switches. Key steps include downloading the new firmware files to an FTP server, using the firmwaredownload command on the switch to initiate the upgrade, checking the upgrade status and verifying the firmware version after completion. If upgrading from an earlier version than 7.4, an additional firmwarecommit step is required to commit the upgrade to both partitions.

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    This document summarizes the process for upgrading the firmware on Brocade fibre channel switches. Key steps include downloading the new firmware files to an FTP server, using the firmwaredownload command on the switch to initiate the upgrade, checking the upgrade status and verifying the firmware version after completion. If upgrading from an earlier version than 7.4, an additional firmwarecommit step is required to commit the upgrade to both partitions.

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    This document summarizes the process for upgrading the firmware on Brocade fibre channel switches. Key steps include downloading the new firmware files to an FTP server, using the firmwaredownload command on the switch to initiate the upgrade, checking the upgrade status and verifying the firmware version after completion. If upgrading from an earlier version than 7.4, an additional firmwarecommit step is required to commit the upgrade to both partitions.

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    Upgrading Brocade Switch Firmware

    d8tadude.com/2018/06/06/upgrading-brocade-switch-firmware

    View all posts by Richard Arnold 5 June 2018

    This post discusses the process to update a Brocade Fibre Channel switch. You will require an
    FTP server to complete the process.

    Pre-Upgrade Tasks
    Before updating the Fabric OS on your Brocade switches complete the following steps:

    1 Find the current firmware version and check compatibility. Check the current firmware
    version by entering at the CLI

    firmwareshow

    Verify the upgrade path from within the Brocade Fabric OS Upgrade Guide which you will find
    in the Brocade document library. As shown in the table below upgrade between one release is
    online more than this will require a reboot of the switch. So check you are happy with your
    multipathing setup on hosts before continuing.

    If you have other switches connected to the switch you are upgrading check for computability
    in the Brocade Fabric OS Release Notes.

    2 Backup the Brocade FC switches

    3 Run a Brocade supportsave

    4 You can also run an errclear to clear all existing stats

    5 Check no ports are G ports

    switchshow

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    6 Check that no firmware upgrade is already in progress

    firmwaredownloadstatus

    7 If the switches are in a fabric run the commands below and take a note of the setting. You
    will run these commands again after to ensure the fabric is healthy

    nsshow

    nsallshow

    fabricshow

    7 Download the switch firmware from Brocade

    8 Extract the Zip file and place it on your FTP server

    Upgrading the Brocade switch firmware


    1 Connect to the switch with an admin account

    2 Enter the command firmwaredownload and follow the prompts. If you are upgrading from
    7.4.x or earlier you will need to use firmwaredownload -s. firmwaredownload -s just commits
    the updated firmware to one partition you manually need to commit it to the second. This can
    be a useful way of testing an update and reduces the risk of upgrade. This is the procedure
    that is covered in this post, once you are happy with the update you will commit to both
    partitions

    firmwaredownload

    3 Follow the prompts:

    Enter the IP address of the FTP server

    Host IP or Host Name: 10.10.10.5

    Enter a username with access to the FTP server

    User Name: anonymous

    Enter the location of the firmware upgrade files. In the example below I have copied the
    upgrade files for v8.1.0 to the root directory of the FTP server

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    File Name: v8.1.0/v8.1.0c

    Select the protocol the FTP server uses

    Protocol (ftp | scp | sftp): ftp

    Enter the password for the user account you selected

    Password:

    4 You will then see the switch update begin which will take aprox 30mins.

    You can see all the steps that were taken taken below

    FCSWITCH1:admin> firmwaredownload -s
    Server Name or IP Address: 10.10.10.5
    User Name: anonymous
    File Name: v8.1.0/v8.1.0c
    Network Protocol(1-auto-select, 2-FTP, 3-SCP, 4-SFTP) [1]: 2
    Password:
    Do Auto-Commit after Reboot [Y]: n
    Reboot system after download [N]: y
    Server IP: 10.10.10.5, Protocol IPv4
    Checking system settings for firmwaredownload...</spanSystem settings check passed.>

    Post Upgrade Checks


    1 Once the upgrade is running you can check progress using:

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    firmwaredownloadstatus
    [1]: Tue Aug 15 21:46:28 2017
    Firmware is being downloaded to the switch. This step may take up to 30 minutes.

    [2]: Tue Aug 15 21:52:21 2017


    Firmware has been downloaded to the secondary partition of the switch.

    2 When the process is finished you can check the switch firmware (Fabric OS) is at the
    expected version

    firmwareshow

    Appl Primary/Secondary Versions


    ------------------------------------------
    FOS v8.1.0
    v8.1.0

    3 If your switch is in a fabric check the fabric is healthy with the following commands and
    check against the values you noted earlier

    fabricshow

    nsshow

    nsallshow

    If you ran the firmwaredownload without the -s command, that’s it your done. If not you can let
    things run for a bit and then you need to commit the firmware to the second partition

    Committing the firmware


    1 Enter the command below to confirm the primary partition is running the correct level of
    firmware

    firmwareshow

    2 Next commit the firmware

    firmwarecommit

    4 You can view the progress of the update

    firmwaredownloadstatus

    5 Finally now check that both partitions are running the correct firmware version

    firmwareshow

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