Upgrading the HMC Software

Upgrading the HMC Software

The Hardware Management Console (HMC) controls the configuration and monitoring of the Logical PARtitions (LPAR’s) in the managed frames. For this to function efficiently the Operating Systems must be updated to the latest supported level. Currently the Operating system is over 2 years old and is out of support. Because of the big changes made between release 4.5 and release 6.1 the upgrade path is slightly different than normal.

Pre-requisites

Order the HMC Version 6 Release 1.2 Recovery DVD’s, or download them, from the IBM Recovery media/Downloads web page.

Perform a Save Upgrade Data to preserve data on the HMC before starting the upgrade. The upgrade must begin immediately after the Save Upgrade Data action, and before restarting the HMC applications.

Select Licensed Internal Code Maintenance.
Select HMC Code Update.
Select Save Upgrade Data, and then insert a formatted DVD-RAM media into the DVD drive.
Select DVD drive, and then click Continue.
If the Save Upgrade Data task is successful, remove the DVD-RAM, insert the first V6.1.0 recovery media into the DVD-RAM drive. Close the HMC console and reboot.

Upgrade Procedure

The HMC will boot from the DVD and display the Install/Backup/Restore menu.

Select Install and press Next

Select Install From Media and press Next.

Installation of the HMC will then start. When prompted, replace the DVD with the next disk. When installation of the second disk is complete select option 2 (Finish Installation) from the menu.

Login into the HMC using the default user ID (hscroot) and password .

Open a restricted shell window (right-click on desktop, terminals and rshterm).

Load the Save Upgrade Data DVD from step 2 and mount the media

>mount /media/cdrom

Upgrade the data from the Save Upgrade Data DVD.

>rstupgdata –r dvd

When the upgrade is complete un-mount the DVD

>umount /media/cdrom

Reboot the HMC

>hmcshutdown -r -t now


Post Installation Check

From the menu bar select:

Help About the Hardware Management Console

Open the About panel

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