HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Software User Manual

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5.

Enter set external-manager Username=xyz Enabled=true from the VCM command
prompt to enable the account.

6.

Perform the VC Domain resynchronization operation again.

Updating VC firmware versions in a VC Domain to be compatible with
VC 3.70 or later

With release 7.1.1, VC firmware versions 3.70 and later are not compatible with VC firmware
versions prior to 3.3x.

NOTE:

VC firmware 3.70 or later does not support HP 1/10 Gb VC-Enet and HP 1/10 Gb-Enet

modules. VCSU detects the old modules and will not proceed with the firmware update.

Suggested actions

Virtual Connect firmware compatibility mode allows administrators to update each VC Domain in
a VC Domain Group incrementally, rather than requiring that all VC Domains be updated at the
same time. VC Domain Group firmware mode is the firmware level in which a VC Domain Group
operates.

NOTE:

For GUI screens and buttons to perform the VC firmware updates described in the following

procedures, see

“Updating VC firmware” (page 21)

.

To update a VC Domain to VC 3.70 or later from VC 3.18 or earlier:
1.

Use VC Domain Maintenance to perform a firmware update to an intermediary version that
is supported by the new firmware first. For example, if the current VC Domain Group firmware
mode is 3.15 and the new firmware is 3.70, update the firmware on all VC Domains from
the VC Domain Group to 3.5x or 3.6x.

2.

After the firmware for all VC Domains has been updated to 3.5x or 3.6x, upgrade the VC
Domain Group firmware mode to 3.5x.

NOTE:

VC 3.5x and VC 3.6x share the 3.5x VC Domain Group firmware mode. There is

no separate 3.6x VC Domain Group firmware mode.)

3.

From the VC Domains page in the VCEM GUI, select all VC Domains (which have just been
updated to 3.5x or 3.6x) from the VC Domain Group and the VC Domain Firmware Update...
GUI button. Then use the VCSU to update the VC firmware for each of the selected VC Domains.

4.

Optional—Update the VC Domain Group firmware mode to 3.7x after the VC firmware on
all the VC Domains in the VC Domain Group has been updated to VC firmware 3.70.

The following steps are an alternate procedure to update from VC firmware 3.15-3.18 to VC
firmware 3.70:
1.

Remove the entire VC Domain Group from VCEM.

2.

Update the VC firmware for all VC Domains directly to 3.70.

3.

Recreate the VC Domain Group using the updated VC Domains.

See the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager User Guide at

http://www.hp.com/go/

insightmanagement/docs

for information on removing VC Domain Groups, updating VC firmware

and creating VC Domain Groups.

If you are using HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration to manage logical
servers attached to server profiles, some additional steps may be necessary after removing and
recreating the VC Domain Group. See the HP Matrix Operating Environment Infrastructure
Orchestration User Guide
at

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs

.

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