Dell PowerVault MD 32XX/36XX Series Storage Arrays CLI Guide

Description

This command downloads a firmware image to a physical disk. Before attempting to download physical disk firmware, you must take the following precautions:

1. Stop all I/O activity to the storage array before downloading the firmware image.
2. Ensure the firmware image file is compatible with the physical disk enclosure. If you download a file that is not compatible with the selected physical disk enclosure, the enclosure might become unusable.
3. Do not make any configuration changes to the storage array while downloading the physical disk firmware. Attempting to make a configuration change can cause the firmware download to fail and make the selected physical disks unusable.

You can use this command to test the firmware on one physical disk before installing the firmware on all of the physical disks in a storage array. (Use the Download Storage Array Physical Disk Firmware command to download firmware on all of the physical disks in the storage array. See Download Storage Array Physical Disk Firmware.) This command blocks all I/O activity until the download finishes or fails. The download returns one of the following statuses:

• Successful
• Unsuccessful With Reason
• Never Attempted With Reason.

This command is used to download a firmware image to only one physical disk at a time. If you use this command in a script, ensure that you use this command only once. If you use this command more than once, the operation may fail. You can download firmware images to all of the physical disks in a storage array at one time by using the Download Storage Array Physical Disk Firmware command.

Syntax

download physicalDisk [enclosureID,slotID]
                                 firmware file="
                                 filename"
                                 content="
                                 firmware"
                              

Parameters