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#1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 10:10 AM

Hi,
We are looking at upgrading our P590 firmware from 230_153 to 230_156.
According to the IBM support site this upgrade is concurrent.
I spoke to the IBM CE and he said thay always reboot anyway whenever
they do a firmware upgrade. I would of expected to be able to upgrade
this firmware on the fly without downtime as it seems that it what the
support site is implying.
Am I wrong, anybody done this successfully on the fly?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 10:10 AM

ste_mc@zdnetmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> We are looking at upgrading our P590 firmware from 230_153 to 230_156.
> According to the IBM support site this upgrade is concurrent.
> I spoke to the IBM CE and he said thay always reboot anyway whenever
> they do a firmware upgrade. I would of expected to be able to upgrade
> this firmware on the fly without downtime as it seems that it what the
> support site is implying.
> Am I wrong, anybody done this successfully on the fly?

I've only done a couple of firmware upgrades on AIX systems and
whenever the upgrade is for the system and not a component (such as a
CDROM or tape drive), the system automatically rebooted afterward as
the final step during installation.

My guess is that this auto-reboot will happen with your P590, but I
could be wrong.

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