update the firmware of a server cisco c220 m3

[diego_moscoso]

Good afternoon, I need to update the firmware of a server cisco c220 m3, the version that is currently installed is the 20.10.1-0104.

I will follow the procedure for this server, but I arise a number of questions on the implications that might have this update.

Currently the server has the following controllers:

• CISCO 2008M-8i SAS UCSC SLOT-MEZZ (two physical disks, 1 logical disk RAID1)
• FIX FLASH-0 (1 Physical disk 4 Logical Disk (SCU, HU, DRIVERS, HUU))
• 1Gbps network Broadcom 5709 NIC 2 port
  

When updating the server firmware, settings of these controllers will be affected members will continue ?, stored in each of these controllers settings after the update? Or should I do something after the server upgrade firmware?

I need to know that other considerations should I do before upgrading. So to have ready the procedure after starting the computer with the new version.

Any contribution is welcome.
Thank you so much

[Kirk J]

Greetings.

The HUU firmware update process will retain your server's current configuration.

In regards to the raid controller, the individual disks have what is called metadata, written on each drive, which helps define what kind of raid type and which disk number of the raid volume they are, etc.  You could replace the raid controller and would not loose your raid configuration or data.

See the flex-flash doc for more details on the flex flash.  Unless you are booting from the HV partition on the flexflash card, I wouldn't be too concerned about the flex flash.

Please check the UCS interop matrix to see if you will need to update any OS drivers such as raid controller, broadcom NIC driver, Intel NIC driver for the firmware/huu version you are updating to.

The HUU update process takes around 45-60 minutes.

Thanks,

Kirk...

[diego_moscoso]

kirk , thank you very much for your contribution, I'll do the firmware update and share the result.