Dell EMC Unity: How to check and disable automatic drive firmware upgrade (User Correctable)
Unity 5.3 Seahawk brings some significant changes to the Unity product that will affect every customer. In the Seahawk release, the online drive firmware upgrade is periodically run on a physical Unity system to upgrade outdated drives.
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Unity 5.3 Seahawk brings some significant changes to the Unity product that will affect every customer. In the Seahawk release, the online drive firmware upgrade is periodically run on
a physical Unity system to upgrade outdated drives.
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Instructions
Periodic Online Drive Firmware Update(pODFU): has only three command options: enable, check status, and disable
service@Unity spb:~/user# svc_change_hw_config --periodic_odfu --enable
Periodic ODFU State = Enabled.
service@Unity spb:~/user# svc_change_hw_config --periodic_odfu --status
Periodic ODFU is enabled.
service@Unity spb:~/user# svc_change_hw_config --periodic_odfu --disable
Periodic ODFU State = Disabled.
Important: The pODFU feature is transparent to the customer and the frequency to run is set at one week and cannot be changed.