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  • 1.  Firmware Upgrade from VL950_124 to VL950_168

    Posted Tue November 05, 2024 07:05 AM

    I am planning to update firmware from VL950_124 to VL950_168 (950.C1) to apply the fix vulnerability CVE-2024-45656 .
    As per the documentation, I am assuming that this update will be concurrent and doesn't require any downtime.
    Could anyone please confirm, if the update is actually concurrent and there won't be any need to take downtime?

    Will be doing the update on 9009-41G systems which are HMC Managed.

    Regards

    Justin



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    Justin Francis
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  • 2.  RE: Firmware Upgrade from VL950_124 to VL950_168

    Posted Tue November 05, 2024 07:11 AM

    You are good to go. There will be some deferred fixes in that jump. We went from a much earlier version to VL950_168 and it was done concurrently.



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    Paul Clayton
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  • 3.  RE: Firmware Upgrade from VL950_124 to VL950_168

    Posted Wed November 06, 2024 10:20 AM

    Hi Justin. I just performed this upgrade last week, and we started with _92 and had no problem at all doing so concurrently.



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    Shawn Bodily
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  • 4.  RE: Firmware Upgrade from VL950_124 to VL950_168

    Posted Thu November 07, 2024 04:00 AM

    Hi,

    Just updated a 9009-41G from FW950.40 (99) to FW950.C1 (168), everything went fine and smooth (using HMC V10 R3 SP1060 MF71703).

    Took about 1 hour.

    All about concurrent / disruptive is clearly explained here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7173833, "Firmware Information".

    You may also want read the warning about HMC V10R3 1060 in "Important Information", although I didn't notice the problem here :)



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    Sylvain Manceau
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  • 5.  RE: Firmware Upgrade from VL950_124 to VL950_168

    Posted Fri November 08, 2024 09:26 AM
    Edited by Robert Berendt Wed January 08, 2025 04:00 PM

    I used to do firmware updates listed as concurrent, concurrently.  Until I got burned (on a previous level).  I have a 9105-41B and a 9105-42A.  Both support multiple lpars of IBM i, VIOS.  One also supports AIX.  SAN disk on both.  Both were at the same level. I upgraded one concurrently with no problems that I noticed.  Then I upgraded the other.  Lost a few hundred 5250 users.  Apparently I don't have any lpars on the 41B who actively support more than 1 or 2 5250 users.

    It was pointed out to me that I must have something wrong in my ethernet redundancy on my setup.  Perhaps so.  But the march of pitchforks and torches was impressive.



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
    Business Systems Analyst, Lead
    Dekko
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  • 6.  RE: Firmware Upgrade from VL950_124 to VL950_168

    Posted Fri November 08, 2024 10:58 PM
    I did this firmware update as well and it was concurrent. However, there
    is a deferred update at 161 and I don't like leaving those around so I
    planned for a re-ipl(power off and on) anyway.


    Jaqui


    On 11/8/2024 8:25 AM, Robert Berendt via IBM TechXchange Community wrote:
    > I used to do firmware updates listed as concurrent, concurrently. Until I got burned (on a previous level). I have a 9105-41B and a 9105-42A. Both support multiple lpars of IBM i, VIOS. One also supports AIX. SAN disk on both. Both were at the same level. I upgraded one concurrently with no problems that I noticed. Then I upgraded the other. Lost a few hundred 5250 users. Apparently I don't have any lpars on the 41B who actively support more than 1 or 2 5250 users.
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    > It was pointed out to me that I must have something wrong in my ethernet redundancy on my setup. Perhaps so. But the march of pitchforks and torches was impressive.
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    > Robert Berendt IBMChampion
    > Business Systems Analyst, Lead
    > Dekko
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    > Original Message:
    > Sent: Tue November 05, 2024 07:04 AM
    > From: Justin Francis
    > Subject: Firmware Upgrade from VL950_124 to VL950_168
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    > I am planning to update firmware from VL950_124 to VL950_168 (950.C1) to apply the fix vulnerability CVE-2024-45656 .
    > As per the documentation, I am assuming that this update will be concurrent and doesn't require any downtime.
    > Could anyone please confirm, if the update is actually concurrent and there won't be any need to take downtime?
    >
    > Will be doing the update on 9009-41G systems which are HMC Managed.
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    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Justin
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