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Upgrading Node Card(s) with the Chassis
Manager
For the procedure needed to upgrade node cards using the Chassis Manager GUI, refer to the Chassis
Manager User Guide.
Upgrading a New Fabric Controller Module
When you add a new fabric controller module to a production Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008, you must
upgrade the new module so that it runs the same firmware as the existing module. If you neglect to
upgrade the second fabric controller module, your Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008 will experience
problems in the event of a failover because the failover will boot a different OS version.
The critical difference between this upgrade process and the standard upgrade process occurs when you
force the Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008 to skip the standard controller module failover when you install
and reboot. The instructions that follow assume that
• You added the new fabric controller module to the Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008 as it ran.
• You have not yet rebooted the chassis.
Upgrade a New Fabric Controller Module with
the CLI
To upgrade the module, perform the following steps:
1. Launch a CLI session to your Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008 and log in as a user with administrative
privileges.
Example
2. Enter the
enable
command to enter Privileged Execute mode.
Example
3. Enter the show card-inventory command to view the images that run on each fabric controller
module (the devices in slots 11 and 12). If the images match, you do not need to upgrade the new
management I/O module.
4. Enter the copy command with
• the location and file name of the image file that you want to copy
• the destination and file name for the file on your chassis
to copy an image file to your Topspin 270/Cisco SFS 7008.
Login: super
Password: xxxxx
SFS-270> enable
SFS-270#