Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide

Updating expansion-module and drawer firmware

ME5 Seriessupports two expansion modules. Each expansion module contains an enclosure management processor (EMP). In an enclosure with drawers, each drawer contains two EMPs, which are also referred to as “modules.” All modules of the same product model should run the same firmware version.

Expansion-module and drawer firmware is updated in either of two ways:

• When you update controller-module firmware, all expansion-module and drawer EMPs are automatically updated to a compatible firmware version.
• You can update the firmware in each expansion-module and drawer EMP by loading a firmware file obtained from the enclosure vendor.

You can specify to update all expansion modules or only specific expansion modules. If you specify to update all expansion modules and the system contains more than one type of enclosure, the update will be attempted on all enclosures in the system. The update will only succeed for enclosures whose type matches the file, and will fail for enclosures of other types.