UCS Firmware upgrade 2.1.1f to 2.1.2a

[Walter Dey]

                   We tried to upgrade UCS firmware from 2.1.1f to 2.1.2a, initially with autoinstall infrastructure

                    however, the system hangs with IOM upgrade !

                    any advice how to escape from the autoinstall ?

                    anybody having had similar issues ?

[Timo Scheller]

Hi,

same here but from 2.1.1b to 2.1.2a with IOM-a on Chassis-1.

The other IOM and second chassis did it just great...

/chassis # show firmware |egrep -A 10 "IOM"

    IOM 1 (Fabric A):

        Running-Vers: 2.1(1b)

        Package Vers: 2.1(1b)A

        Update-Status: Ready

        Activate-Status: Pending Next Boot

    IOM 2 (Fabric B):

        Running-Vers: 2.1(2a)

        Package Vers: 2.1(2a)A

        Update-Status: Ready

        Activate-Status: Ready

No reset or anything has helped so far. Another message will be this one:

/chassis/iom* # show fault

Major     F0401    2013-07-16T11:06:38.412    612542 IOM 1/1 (A) current connectivity does not match discovery policy or connectivity is unsupported: unsupported-connectivity

Any advice would be very helpfull.

Timo

[Walter Dey]

I solved the problem with this painful steps

1) I only have one chassis -> decommission chassis

2) this resulted that the remaining steps in the infrastructure autoinstall got finished properly (both FI's)

3) Recommission chassis

4) manually firmware upgrade and activate IOM -> IOM are in pending next boot

5) reset IOM's

btw. one UCS domain (with 1 chassis) was upgrading ok, the other failed.

Any advice to get out of a hanging autoinstall sequence ?

Thanks

Walter.