Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • This is my guide/template to upgrading Fabric OS (FOS) – Firmware – on the Brocade SAN Switches. If you have any additions, comments or questions please go ahead and comment or if you have any questions you can find my e-mail on. The post have been updated over 100 times according to my wordpress revisions, first update in January 2011. This article was originally built from my experience with HP branded Brocade SAN Switches – not with any other OEM or pure Brocade switches. I have however since beginning this document gotten experience with other vendors. I do not think others are different except for licenses and some default fabric.ops. I made a of two downloads of the 6.3.1b Fabric OS Firmware (one via IBM and one from HP).

You can find a link to the “IBM” firmwares and release notes after 6.x in that article too. I found that they are very similar and the HP firmware works on the IBM switch and vice versa. Another example is that firmware gotten from HDS works on an HP branded Brocade switch. When you see 5.2.x this mean any version in the Fabric OS 5.2.x series. For upgrades this would generally mean the latest available in that series (like 5.2.3 for 5.2.x or 6.0.0c for 6.0.x) unless of course there is a problem with the latest.

Vendor: Model: Version: Access Type: Username: PASSWORD: Privileges: Notes: 3COM: CoreBuilder: 7000/6000/3500/2500: Telnet. Support Tools. Brocade SAN Health. Download our free SAN Health Diagnostics Capture utility and SAN Professional framework to get a fast, accurate view of your SAN environment, including time- saving reports and enhanced change tracking. This is my guide/template to upgrading Fabric OS (FOS) – Firmware – on the Brocade SAN Switches. I made a comparison of two downloads of the 6.3.1b Fabric OS Firmware (one via IBM and one from HP). Hi; We have HP branded FC switches including 4 silkworm 200e switches on two fabrics.

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Other vendors should also have this but I have no list of this. Carefully plan the upgrade, it takes time but it is rewarding and worth it. Updates in this article. 2011-02-22: Updated links because the release notes I had before to 6.1.x and above did not work anymore. Also changed the sub-versions in 6.1.x and above to the latest released one by HP. 2011-02-24: Found link to on HP.com with the help of an ITRC thread. 2011-04-21: Added links for correlating Brocade Product name, model number and HP name.

Latest in 6.4.x series is now 6.4.1b 2011-05-05: Added link to Web Tools for 6. Logiciel Edition Etiquette Code Barre Gratuitous Violence here. 2.x with reference to how to upgrade Firmware via the web tools. 2011-05-15: A note added about compatibility regarding the ‘HP’ firmware files and other vendors – as far as I can tell the ones downloaded from HP will work on other non-HP switches. Also posted a about that. Added to IBM.com – for correlating product names and for getting (all Fabric OS) firmwares. 2011-05-18: Added a link to a post on where the post helped a bit. Also made post a little easier, wrote a little about the release.plist confusion. 2011-05-24: Added example to show that driver updates are important.

Some more restructuring of the article. 2011-07-12: Added FOS 7. Final Fantasy X 2 International Patch Download more. 0.0a 2011-07-14: Added to HP knowledge base and updated a link to an ITRC forum thread to point to the new forum. 2011-09-29: Added FOS 7.0.0b and section about CF cards. 2011-10-19: Wrote a bit about firmware upgrade order.

2011-10-24: The HP links to 6.0.0c and 5.3.x seems to not work anymore. I could not find either of these for download on HP’s website. The IBM one still has 6.0.0c (release notes anyway). 2011-12-05: Went through all links to make sure they worked.

Re-wrote some of the steps and re-ordered so that ‘decide’ is before ‘prepare’. Added output from switch when doing the firmware upgrade via CLI. 2011-12-10: Added table of contents via a plugin. 2012-01-02: Added FOS 7.0.0c 2012-01-09: Added EMC branded switches default pw 2012-02-14: Added HP’s to FOS 5.x.

Option Tools Welders. 2012-02-15: Added to FOS 7 info and downloads. 2012-02-21: Some notes about which switches can do which firmware. Re-wrote a part of the upgrade order section.