12.12 Updating Controller, Enclosure, Backplane, and Disk Drive Firmware

Note: This task is recommended for advanced users only.

maxView Storage Manager includes a wizard to help you update the firmware on the controllers, enclosures, backplane, and disk drives in your storage space. The wizard updates the firmware for devices of the same type on the local or a remote system.

For example, if your storage space includes disk drives from two different manufactures, you must update the firmware for each manufacturer's drives separately, by running the wizard twice. Additionally, if you have more than one system in your storage space, you must run the wizard for each system separately.

To update the firmware on the controllers, enclosures, backplane, or disk drives in your storage space, review the prerequisites in Before You Begin, then follow one of these sets of instructions:

Note: When the controller is configured with Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Based Encryption with Remote Mode, then downgrading the firmware to the older version fails, which does not support 255 character master key identifier. This information is available at both the System level and Controller level firmware upgrade process.