What triggers an update to Disk, Shelf, or ACP firmware in Data ONTAP 8 7-Mode?
Applies to
- Data ONTAP 8
Answer
Disk Firmware
Disk Firmware will be updated in one of the following three ways:
In the Background
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
- options raid.background_disk_fw_update.enable is on
-or-
options raid.disk.background_fw_update.raid4.enable is on (where applicable) - Newer firmware for the disks present is placed in the
/etc/disk_fw
directory.
When manually triggered
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
- options raid.background_disk_fw_update.enable is off
-or-
options raid.disk.background_fw_update.raid4.enable is off (where applicable) - Newer firmware for the disks present is placed in the
/etc/disk_fw
directory - The
disk_fw_update
command is issued.
Upon next reboot
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
- options raid.background_disk_fw_update.enable is off
-or-
options raid.disk.background_fw_update.raid4.enable is off (where applicable) - Newer firmware for disks present is placed in the
/etc/disk_fw
directory - The system is rebooted.
Shelf Firmware
Shelf Firmware is updated in one of the following three ways:
Note: There are some concerns specific to the AT-FCX modules which is addressed on each shelf FW download page.
When manually triggered
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
- Newer firmware for the shelf modules present is placed in the
/etc/shelf_fw
directory.
-and-
- The following commands are issued:
priv set advanced
storage download shelf
-or-
storage download shelf adapter_name
priv set
Upon the next reboot
This occurs when both the following conditions are met:
- Newer firmware for the shelf modules present is placed in the
/etc/shelf_fw
directory. - The controller is rebooted.
Upon certain events being encountered
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
- Newer firmware for the shelf modules present is placed in the
/etc/shelf_fw
directory.
-and-
- One of the following events occur:
- The
cf giveback
command is issued - New disk drives are inserted
- New shelf modules are inserted
- A-SAS shelf is hot-added
- The
ACP Firmware
ACP Firmware is updated in one of the following two ways:
In the background
This occurs when the following condition is met:
Newer firmware for the ACP is placed in the /etc/acpp_fw
directory.
Note: No other action is required - Data ONTAP polls this directory periodically.
When manually triggered
This occurs when the following conditions are met:
- Newer firmware for the ACP is placed in the
/etc/acpp_fw
directory. - The following commands are issued:
priv set advanced
storage download acp
priv set
For complete information on all the firmware updates, see the Upgrade Guide for the version of Data ONTAP being used.
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