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Goal

Upgrade the Oracle Fabric Interconnect Chassis Operating System (Formely XgOS)

Solution

DISPATCH INSTRUCTIONS

WHAT SKILLS DOES THE FIELD ENGINEER/ADMINISTRATOR NEED?: Basic Oracle Fabric Interconnect product familiarity and skills.

 TIME ESTIMATE: 60 minutes

TASK COMPLEXITY: 0

FIELD ENGINEER/ADMINISTRATOR INSTRUCTIONS:
PROBLEM OVERVIEW: Upgrade the Oracle Fabric Interconnect Chassis Operating System (Formely XgOS)

WHAT STATE SHOULD THE SYSTEM BE IN TO BE READY TO PERFORM THE RESOLUTION ACTIVITY?:

Before the upgrade, copy the .xpf file of the XgOS you will be upgrading to to the Oracle Fabric Interconnect Chassis

This file is available from the Oracle Support Portal. Place it in /var/fsroot/admin folder using a SCP/FTP client. You must login to the Fabric Director as user 'root' not user 'admin' to upload the XgOS.xpf file to /var/fsroot/admin. The default 'root' password is 'root' however most likely this has been changed in most customer's Chassis.

WHAT ACTION DOES THE FIELD ENGINEER/ADMINISTRATOR NEED TO TAKE?

1. The first step is to get a backup of the director’s configuration shortly before the upgrade.
Once that’s done, we want to freeze any changes to the director. To accomplish this, run the following command from the admin prompt:

2. Then, using an scp client, connect to the director, and from the /var/fsroot/admin directory, copy the above xml file to your local machine. This will insure we have a copy of the configuration even if we suffer a serious h/w failure.

Next, at the time of the upgrade, we want to set all I/O cards down. To do this, run this command for each I/O card:

3. Once all of the I/O cards are set down, proceed with the upgrade:

This will initiate the upgrade process. It will take anywhere between 20-40 minutes (including the reboot of the Chassis) for the upgrade to complete. Once the Chassis is rebooted, and a successful login is achieved, set the I/O cards back up, one at a time in a controlled fashion, and wait for the virtual resources associated with each card to come up before setting the next one up. For each card, run these commands:

OBTAIN CUSTOMER ACCEPTANCE
 WHAT ACTION DOES THE FIELD ENGINEER/ADMINISTRATOR NEED TO TAKE TO RETURN THE SYSTEM TO AN OPERATIONAL STATE?

Verify that all the virtual resources are up/up before proceding on to the next one.

REFERENCE INFORMATION:

Also refer to <Document 1517629.1> How to Perform an Oracle Fabric Interconnect Firmware Upgrade

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