Upgrade Firmware Brocade SAN Switch

 

In this post I will show you how to Upgrade the Brocade Switches Firmware.

Requirements:

• Filezilla FTP Server (or similar)
• Filezilla FTP Client (or similar)
• Putty
• Java JRE (the version will depend of the Switch Brocade. Probably you will need version 7)
• Log on credential for Brocade website or vendor website
• Downloaded upgrade firmware. Read the Release Notes because you might need more than one firmware

Let's start with the Upgrade Paths and then with the procedures.

Step-by-Step - Cisco UCS Firmware Upgrade

 

I once had to upgrade a Cisco UCS Manager and the process went very smoothly, without any downtime and I documented all the procedures.

For those who do not know this system here is a brief description:

Cisco UCS Manager supports the entire Cisco UCS server and Cisco HyperFlex Series hyperconverged infrastructure portfolios. It enables server, fabric, and storage provisioning as well as, device discovery, inventory, configuration, diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, auditing, and statistics collection. You can extend the benefits of Cisco UCS Manager globally across an enterprise to thousands of servers in multiple domains with Cisco UCS Central Software.

More information:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-manager/index.html

 

In this post I will show you how to Upgrade UCS 2.2(3c) to version 2.2(8f), but it also applies to other versions. I'm  going to show you how to Upgrade the infrastructure (UCS) software, Fabric Interconnects and I/O modules firmware in a two-stage operation.

So, let's start!