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• Any activities being performed on the server through the KVM console and vMedia are interrupted.
• Any monitoring or IPMI polling is interrupted.
Outage Impact of an Adapter Firmware Upgrade
If you activate the firmware for an adapter and do not configure the Set Startup Version Only option, you
cause the following outage impacts and disruptions:
• The server reboots.
• Server traffic is disrupted.
Firmware Upgrades through Service Profiles
You can use service profiles to upgrade the server and adapter firmware, including the BIOS on the server,
by defining the following policies and including them in the service profile associated with a server:
• Host Firmware Package policy
• Management Firmware Package policy
You cannot upgrade the firmware on an I/O module, fabric interconnect, or Cisco UCS Manager through
service profiles. You must upgrade the firmware on those endpoints directly.
Note
Host Firmware Package
This policy enables you to specify a set of firmware versions that make up the host firmware package (also
known as the host firmware pack). The host firmware includes the following firmware for server and adapter
endpoints:
• Adapter
• BIOS
• Board Controller
• FC Adapters
• HBA Option ROM
• Storage Controller
You can include more than one type of firmware in the same host firmware package. For example, a host
firmware package can include both BIOS firmware and storage controller firmware or adapter firmware
for two different models of adapters. However, you can only have one firmware version with the same
type, vendor, and model number. The system recognizes which firmware version is required for an endpoint
and ignores all other firmware versions.
Tip
The firmware package is pushed to all servers associated with service profiles that include this policy.
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