Everyone who owns an HMC should take a look at this. This is a potential
problem that is about to cause havoc.
Do you see that the customer has an HMC, but the firmware update policy is
set to OS Managed. So this means when he applies PTFs it will update the
FSP. Now if these are two releases (HMC and FSP) that can't communicate he
will have a problem. The policy should be set to HMC Managed, so that you
can control when the HMC and FSP get updated. I believe right now that HMC
4.3 is not a supported combination with FSP 01SF240.
The good news is you can update the HMC without taking the system down.
Upgrades will take about at most 60 to 90 minutes, and you will have to get
to 6.1.2 and then to 7.3.1 (Two upgrades). Don't forget to save to Upgrade
Data to DVD.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:15 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: V5R4M0 upgrade - HMC as well?
Thanks. Pete had given me good counsel on this.
Pete or Rob, any WAG on the time required to move an old HMC version to
the latest and greatest? Biggest concern is the amount of time the
System i would be down. I plan to take care of the HMC upgrade first,
let the dust settle, and then go to V5R4M0. As a quick refresher the
HMC version info is:
V 4.0
Release 3.3
HMC Build level 20050114.1
MH00224
Backup/Restore fix level (02-17-2005)
FLASHLEVELS in SST show:
LS Flash Sync Enabled.
OS MANAGED
Base Level:
Side Date/Time MI Keyword PTFs (V5R3M0)
------------- ------------- ---------- -------------
Memory 20060505/1020 SF240_219 MH00678
Flash P 20050311/1416 SF225_096 MH00248
Flash T 20060505/1020 SF240_219 MH00678
Load Source A 20050311/1416 SF225_096 MH00248
Load Source B 20060505/1020 SF240_219 MH00678
Thanks,
Pete Helgren
rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
There was a most recent discussion on this. I was pointed to an excellent
cross reference.
Keep in mind that there are three things to keep in mind:
- Version of HMC code.
- Version of FSP code. (FSP is like the old controlling partition.)
- Version of i5/os.
This reference tells you what is supported with what. In our case we had
to upgrade our HMC from V5.? to the last version of V6 currently
available. Then we upgraded our FSP code. Then we finished upgrading our
HMC to V7.
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/power5cm/supportedcode.html
Viewing existing firmware levels:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r3s/topic/ipha5/viewexist
level.htm
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
