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In Cisco UCS Director, you can create firmware upgrade profiles and then use these profiles to upgrade the firmware on rack servers. You can create the following types of firmware upgrade profiles:
Profile for locally stored firmware images.
For more information on creating this profile, see Adding Images to a Local Server
Profile for firmware images stored on the network.
For more information on creating this profile, see Adding Images from a Network Server
Perform this procedure to upload iso images from your local file system to the system.
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose > . | ||||||||
Step 2 | Click Images - Local tab and click Upload to add an image. | ||||||||
Step 3 | In the
Upload
Firmware Image - Local dialog box, complete the following:
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Step 4 | Click Upload. | ||||||||
Step 5 | Click OK in the File Upload confirmation box, once the upload is complete. | ||||||||
Step 6 | Click
Submit.
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Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||||||||||||||||||||
Step 2 | Choose the Images - Network tab. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Step 3 | Click Add. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Step 4 | In the
Add
Firmware Image - Network dialog box, complete the following:
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Step 5 | Click Submit. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Step 6 | In the
Submit
Result dialog box, click
OK.
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Perform this procedure when you want to upgrade firmware on a rack server.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||||||||
Step 2 | Choose the Firmware Upgrades tab. | ||||||||
Step 3 | Click
Run
Upgrade.
A warning message that running upgrade on the selected servers will cause the host to reboot into the firmware update tool and on completing the firmware update, the servers will reboot back to the host OS is displayed. | ||||||||
Step 4 | Click OK to confirm. | ||||||||
Step 5 | In the
Upgrade
Firmware dialog box, complete the following:
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Step 6 | In the Upgrade Firmware dialog box, click Submit. | ||||||||
Step 7 | In the confirmation dialog box, click OK. |
Perform this procedure when you want to delete only the firmware image and not the profile using which the firmware image was downloaded.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | Choose the Images - Local tab. |
Step 3 | Select a profile from the table. |
Step 4 | Click Delete Image. |
Step 5 | In the
Delete
Image(s) dialog box, click
Delete.
The firmware image is deleted from the system. You can download this firmware image from later on by using the Download Image option. |
Perform this procedure when you want to delete a profile created for firmware upgrade.
Perform this procedure to clear all firmware-related status messages recorded in the Cisco UCS Director system.