Updating firmware for blade servers operating as a single partition

If you are performing inband updates to firmware on blade servers operating as a single partition in a scalable blade complex, updates made to the firmware on the primary blade server are also applied to the secondary blade server.

You can obtain the firmware updates from the http://www.ibm.com/support/ fixcentral/systemx/groupView? query.productGroup=ibm%2FBladeCenter.

Complete the following steps to update the firmware for the blade servers operating as a single partition in a scalable blade complex:
  1. Run the IMM firmware update package on the primary blade server.
  2. Run the UEFI firmware update package on the primary blade server.
  3. Run the FPGA firmware update package on the primary blade server.
  4. Run the DSA preboot firmware update package the primary blade server.
  5. Restart the scalable blade complex to activate the firmware.

The firmware updates that were made to the primary blade server are applied to the secondary blade server.

Parent topic: Updating firmware and device drivers