FPGA upgrade

[udo.konstantin]

Hello community, 

On one of our clients ACI fabric I found two different faults regarding the FPGA and BIOS version mismatch. 

For the FPGA there is a version (0x8) under the expected version (0x9). 

On the first switch I start with the manual upgrade process: 

/bin/check-fpga.sh FpGaDoWnGrAdE

....

This works fine w/o problems. After that I reload the switch on the GUI but still with the same FPGA versions(mismatch).

While reading the documentation I noticed the switch should be reloaded with the command (not sure if this command is different to the GUI reload command). 

/usr/sbin/chassis-power-cycle.sh

But this produce the following message: 

*** Running INXOS PE IFC image ***
test sse call id 545
sw card id is 354
Invalid or missing card type 36

Switchtype is N9K-C93240YC-FX2. 

So problem still exist....;-) 

Udo 

[Claudia de Luna]

Hi @udo.konstantin !

How are you! 

I've never had any luck clearing FPGA faults manually.  Best way to clear them, I have found, is to upgrade the fabric (usual fabric upgrade via the APICs).

[udo.konstantin]

Hi @Claudia de Luna ,

thanks I'm fine...hope you are also..;-) 

Hopefully an upgrade will solve this Fault. I will try it on the next possible date.

Beste Regards

Udo 

[Beau Poehls]

What are you supposed to do in the instance of NXOS to ACI conversion? This commonly happens during this process. You could do the conversion with an image a couple maintenance releases back from the fabric version, then do an upgrade via APIC post conversion, but it seems like there should be a better way.