Use this procedure to upgrade the firmware of SLX devices in a Clos fabric.
This is the recommended method for upgrading the firmware of devices in a Clos fabric. It describes how to upgrade the device of standby XCO node and MCT leaf pairs, force a failover to change the active node to standby, and then upgrade the SLX of new standby node and remaining MCT leaf pairs.
To upgrade firmware in a small data center configuration, see ExtremeCloud Orchestrator Deployment Guide, 3.2.0 .
$ efa inventory device firmware-download prepare add --fabric <fabric name> --firmware-host <IP of firmware download host> --firmware-directory <path to target firmware build>
–noAutoCommit
, –noMaintMode
, and -drc
options, as
desired.
$ efa inventory device firmware-download execute --fabric <fabric name> --noAutoCommit –noMaintMode Firmware Download Execute [success] --noAutoCommit Configure Auto commit in Firmware Download --noMaintMode Configure Maintenance Mode in Firmware Download --drc Configure a drift reconcilation operation is performed after Firmware Download
$ efa inventory device firmware-download show --fabric <fabric name>
–noAutoCommit
is used and Firmware
Committed without –noAutoCommit
.$ efa inventory device firmware-download commit –fabric <fabric name> OR $ efa inventory device firmware-download commit –ip <IP address of all devices in fabric>