How to Upgrade NetApp SP Firmware Version
Prerequisites
To update the SP firmware image, you need to have access to the following devices:
- A web server on a network accessible to your storage controller
- A console that has an SSH client that can be used to reach the SP or a serial console to the storage controller
- SSH and an account that is set up for SP access
Before using the SP CLI to update the SP firmware, you must ensure the following:
- An SP update is not currently triggered by ONTAP
- No SP firmware package is being downloaded from the ONTAP CLI when the SP is being updated from the SP CLI
ATTENTION: To prepare the SP for a smooth firmware update, reboot the SP first.
Note: Please contact Netapp support in-case if your not confident enough to upgrade SP firmware.
This firmware upgrade is non-disruptive, this upgrade not impact any services in NetApp filer.
Login to Netapp using SSH and reboot the SP using below command.
ARKIT-NA::> system service-processor reboot-sp -node ARKIT-NA02
Note: If your console connection is through the SP, it will be disconnected.
Do you want to reboot the SP ? {y|n}: y
After that watch the Service processor status using below command
ARKIT-NA::> sp show
IP Firmware
Node Type Status Configured Version IP Address
------------- ---- ----------- ------------ --------- -------------------------
ARKIT-NA01 SP rebooting true 5.1 192.168.2.153
ARKIT-NA02 SP online true 5.1P1 192.168.2.154
2 entries were displayed.
Download SP firmware version to your web server default path (/var/www/html)
https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/serviceimage/30803991_sp/SP_FW_308-03991_5.8.tar.gz
Login to SP using SSH as admin user
login as: admin
admin@192.168.2.153's password:
SP ARKIT-NA01>
SP ARKIT-NA01> sp update http://192.168.2.165/SP_FW_308-03991_5.8.tar.gz
NOTE: In most cases, ONTAP will automatically update the SP firmware with a
compatible firmware version in the background and no action is required from
you.
Manually installing the SP firmware using this command may result in
incompatible combinations of ONTAP and SP firmware.
Use of this command is not recommended.
Do you wish to continue? (y/n): y
Downloading package...
Uncompressing package...(md5sum=ba1559b21e9799581e8e72cd8cb07b43)
Unarchiving package...
Inspecting firmware...
Installing package...
Reprocessing configuration state...
Cleaning up...
SP FW Update Successful.
Primary firmware version 5.8
Backup firmware version 5.1
You need to reboot the SP for the new image to take effect.
Do you want to reboot the SP now? (y/n): y
Rebooting SP...
After SP is online verify the status
ARKIT-NA::> sp show
IP Firmware
Node Type Status Configured Version IP Address
------------- ---- ----------- ------------ --------- -------------------------
ARKIT-NA01 SP online true 5.8 192.168.2.153
ARKIT-NA02 SP rebooting true 5.1P1 192.168.2.154
2 entries were displayed.
That's it your SP firmware is upgraded successfully.
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