Cisco Host Upgrade Utility 208 User Guide
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Cisco Host Upgrade Utility 2.0 User Guide First Published: 2016-09-17 Americas Headquarters Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA http://www.cisco.com Tel: 408 526-4000 800 553-NETS (6387) Fax: 408 527-0883
CONTENTS Preface Prefacev Audiencev Conventionsv RelatedCiscoUCSDocumentationvii CHAPTER 1 OverviewofCiscoHostUpgradeUtility1 AbouttheCiscoHostUpgradeUtility1 LicenseAgreement1 UnderstandingtheHUUUserInterface2 CHAPTER 2 RequirementsandSupport5 Requirements5 Support5 CHAPTER 3 UpdatingtheFirmwareonCiscoUCSC-SeriesServers7 UpgradingtheFirmwareonaCiscoUCSC-SeriesServerUsingtheHUU7 CHAPTER 4 Troubleshooting11 Troubleshooting11 Cisco Host Upgrade Utility 2.0 User Guide iii
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Preface Thisprefaceincludesthefollowingsections: •Audience,pagev •Conventions,pagev •RelatedCiscoUCSDocumentation,pagevii Audience Thisguideisintendedprimarilyfordatacenteradministratorswithresponsibilitiesandexpertiseinoneor moreofthefollowing: •Serveradministration •Storageadministration •Networkadministration •Networksecurity Conventions IndicationText Type GUIelementssuchastabtitles,areanames,andfieldlabelsappearinthisfont. Maintitlessuchaswindow,dialogbox,andwizardtitlesappearinthisfont. GUIelements Documenttitlesappearinthisfont.Documenttitles InaText-basedUserInterface,textthesystemdisplaysappearsinthisfont.TUIelements Terminalsessionsandinformationthatthesystemdisplaysappearinthis font. Systemoutput Cisco Host Upgrade Utility 2.0 User Guide v
IndicationText Type CLIcommandkeywordsappearinthisfont. VariablesinaCLIcommandappearinthisfont. CLIcommands Elementsinsquarebracketsareoptional.[] Requiredalternativekeywordsaregroupedinbracesandseparatedbyvertical bars. {x|y|z} Optionalalternativekeywordsaregroupedinbracketsandseparatedbyvertical bars. [x|y|z] Anonquotedsetofcharacters.Donotusequotationmarksaroundthestringor thestringwillincludethequotationmarks. string Nonprintingcharacterssuchaspasswordsareinanglebrackets. Defaultresponsestosystempromptsareinsquarebrackets.[] Anexclamationpoint(!)orapoundsign(#)atthebeginningofalineofcode indicatesacommentline. !,# Meansreadertakenote.Notescontainhelpfulsuggestionsorreferencestomaterialnotcoveredinthe document. Note Meansthefollowinginformationwillhelpyousolveaproblem.Thetipsinformationmightnotbe troubleshootingorevenanaction,butcouldbeusefulinformation,similartoaTimesaver. Tip Meansreaderbecareful.Inthissituation,youmightperformanactionthatcouldresultinequipment damageorlossofdata. Caution Meansthedescribedactionsavestime.Youcansavetimebyperformingtheactiondescribedinthe paragraph. Timesaver Cisco Host Upgrade Utility 2.0 User Guide vi Preface Conventions
IMPORTANTSAFETYINSTRUCTIONS Thiswarningsymbolmeansdanger.Youareinasituationthatcouldcausebodilyinjury.Beforeyou workonanyequipment,beawareofthehazardsinvolvedwithelectricalcircuitryandbefamiliarwith standardpracticesforpreventingaccidents.Usethestatementnumberprovidedattheendofeachwarning tolocateitstranslationinthetranslatedsafetywarningsthataccompaniedthisdevice. SAVETHESEINSTRUCTIONS Warning Related Cisco UCS Documentation Documentation Roadmaps ForacompletelistofallB-Seriesdocumentation,seetheCiscoUCSB-SeriesServersDocumentationRoadmap availableatthefollowingURL:http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/b-series-doc. ForacompletelistofallC-Seriesdocumentation,seetheCiscoUCSC-SeriesServersDocumentationRoadmap availableatthefollowingURL:http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/c-series-doc. ForinformationonsupportedfirmwareversionsandsupportedUCSManagerversionsfortherackservers thatareintegratedwiththeUCSManagerformanagement,refertoReleaseBundleContentsforCiscoUCS Software. Other Documentation Resources FollowCiscoUCSDocsonTwittertoreceivedocumentupdatenotifications. Cisco Host Upgrade Utility 2.0 User Guide vii Preface Related Cisco UCS Documentation
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CHAPTER 1 Overview of Cisco Host Upgrade Utility Thischaptercontainsthefollowingtopics: •AbouttheCiscoHostUpgradeUtility,page1 •LicenseAgreement,page1 •UnderstandingtheHUUUserInterface,page2 About the Cisco Host Upgrade Utility TheCiscoHostUpgradeUtility(hereafterreferredtoasHUU)isatoolthatyoucanusetoupgradethe firmwareonaCiscoUCSC-Seriesserver.HUUincludesanoptionthatenablesyoutodownloadacontainer foraselectedplatformonaWindowsoperatingsystem.YoucandownloadthecontainerfromtheHUUISO byburningtheISOonaphysicalmedia.Whenyouinsertthephysicalmediaintotheserver,auto-runlaunches anIndex.htmlpageinyourbrowser.Thisindex.htmlpageprovidesaccesstothelocationfromwhereyou candownloadthecontainer.YoualsocandownloadthecontainerfromtheISOusingthestandardISO extractionutilities. HUUprovidesauserinterfacewhereyoucanchoosethefirmwarecomponentsthatneedanupgrade.Inthe previousreleases(1.4(x)),HUUprovidedatextmenufromwhichyoucouldchoosethecomponentsand initiatetheupgrade.Fromversion1.5(x)onwards,HUUprovidesagraphicaluserinterfacetoperforman upgrade. Forinformationaboutthecomponentssupportedandtheirfirmwareversionsforvariousserversinarelease, seetheCiscoUCSC-SeriesIntegratedManagementControllerFirmwareFiles,Release2.0. ForinformationaboutupgradingthefirmwareonC-Seriesserversusingnon-interactiveHUU,seetheCisco UCSRack-MountServersCiscoIMCXMLAPIProgrammerGuide. License Agreement AftertheHUUboots,thefirstinterfacethatappearsistheEndUserLicenseAgreement.ChooseIAgreeto agreetothislicense. Cisco Host Upgrade Utility 2.0 User Guide 1
Understanding the HUU User Interface ThissectionprovidesabriefintroductiontotheUIelementsinthevarioussectionsoftheHUUuserinterface. Figure 1: HUU User Interface DescriptionUI element 1.Inventorysection Displaystheserialnumberoftherowsofthecomponents.Id Displaysthelistofcomponentsofaserver.Component Cisco Host Upgrade Utility 2.0 User Guide 2 Overview of Cisco Host Upgrade Utility Understanding the HUU User Interface