This README file contains the latest information about the IBM TotalStorage™ FAStT Storage Server Environmental card (ESM) firmware for the DS4000/FAStT EXP100 drive expansion enclosures. This ESM firmware version 9563 in conjunction with the controller firmware version 06.12.16.00 (DS4100 - all models, DS4300 - Standard and Turbo models, DS4400 - all models and DS4500 - all models) or 06.15.20.05 (DS4800 - all models) is required to provide support for the new 400G SATA drive options and CRUs (P/Ns 39M4570 and 39M4575, respectively) in addition to the new 250G SATA drive CRUs (P/N 40K6837.) This new 250G SATA drive CRU is functionally equivalent to the previously-released CRUs (P/N 90P1349.) Refer to the IBM TotalStorage™ Support Web Site or CD for the IBM TotalStorage™ DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager version 9.1x Installation and Support Guide for Intel-based Operating System Environments or the IBM TotalStorage FAStT Storage Manager version 9.1x Installation and Support Guide for AIX, HP-UX and Solaris. This guide along with the DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager program Online Help provides the installation and support information. One may also want to get a copy of the IBM TotalStorage DS4000/FAStT EXP100 Expansion Unit Installation and User's Guide (P/N GC26-7694-01) for more info about the EXP100 drive expansion enclosures like component replacement instructions, troubleshooting hints/instructions and firmware upgrade procedures. For other related publications (refer to Related Publications in the installation and support guide) and the latest information and updated readme file. Last Update: 11/21/2005 Products Supported: ---------------------------------------------------------------- | New Model | Old Model | Machine Type | Model | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | DS4500 | FAStT 900 | 1742 | 90X, 90U | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | DS4400 | FAStT 700 | 1742 | 1RX, 1RU | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | DS4300 | FAStT 600 | 1722 | 6LX, 6LU, 6LJ, 60X | | | | | 60U, 60J, 60K, 60L | | Standard | | | (Base or Turbo | | or Turbo | | | option) | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | DS4100 | FAStT 100 | 1724 | 100, 1SC | | Standard or| | | (Base Option) | | Single | | | 1Sx | | Controller | | | (SCU Option) | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | EXP 100 | | 1710 | 10U , 10X | | | | 1724 | 1Xx | ---------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The IBM TotalStorage™ DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager version 9.15 host software package is required for managing DS4000/FAStT storage servers that are connecting to the DS4000/FAStT EXP100 drive expansion enclosures. The ESM firmware file that is part of this web package is for the ESMs in the DS4000/FAStT EXP100 drive enclosures only. Furthermore, it should not be loaded into the ESMs of the other DS4000/FAStT drive expansion enclosures like the EXP500, EXP700 and EXP710 ... . Please use the appropriate ESM firmware files for the other DS4000/FAStT drive expansion enclosures in the IBM TotalStorage™ DS4000 Storage Manager version 9.1x. ======================================================================= CONTENTS -------- 1.0 Overview 2.0 Change History 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions 4.0 Configuration Information 5.0 Unattended Mode 6.0 Web Sites and Support Phone Number 7.0 Trademarks and Notices 8.0 Disclaimer ======================================================================= 1.0 Overview -------------- This IBM Storage Manager release includes the IBM DS4000/FAStT EXP100 drive expansion enclosure ESM firmware for the upgrading the following IBM machine type - 1710 (models 10X/10U) and 1724 (models 1Xx). Please follow closely the information in the Installation and Setup Instructions section to properly install this EXP100 ESM firmware version. The IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 Installation and Support Guide for Windows 2000/Server 2003, Netware, ESX Server, and Linux or the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 Installation and Support Guide for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux on Power are available on IBM's Support Web Site as a downloadable Portable Document Format (PDF) file. This guide along with the DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager program Online Help provide the installation and support information. Another publication that is also useful is the IBM TotalStorage DS4000/FAStT EXP100 Expansion Unit Installation, User's and Maintenance Guide (P/N GC26-7694-01). Refer to the IBM Support Web Site for the latest Firmware and NVSRAM files for the IBM DS4000/FAStT Storage Subsystems. http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/ ======================================================================= 1.1 Limitations --------------------- This version 9563 of EXP100 ESM firmware can be used to upgrade the EXP100 drive enclosure ESM with firmware version 9554 only. If the EXP100 ESM firmware in your setup is of 953x or earlier, you must schedule downtime to upgrade the EXP100 ESM firmware from 953x to 9554 followed by the controller firmware upgrade to support the 9554 ESM firmware first. Then, the ESM firmware can be upgraded to 9563 version. Please refer to the latest version of the IBM TotalStorage DS4000/FAStT EXP100 Expansion Unit Installation, User's and Maintenance Guide for an overview of different released EXP100 ESM firmware versions and their capability with each other. Note: If the EXP100 ESM firmware is 953x or earlier, all IOs to the FAStT storage server must be stopped while the ESM firmware is downloaded to the EXP100 ESMs. In addition, clustering services such as Microsoft MSCS must also be stopped if the cluster disks and quorum disks are defined using the logical drives in the EXP100 enclosures whose ESMs are being updated with new firmware. Furthermore, the DS4000/FAStT controller firmware must be at version 05.41.1x.xx in order to upgrade the EXP100 ESM firmware from version 953x and earlier to version 9554. Once the ESM firmware has been upgraded to version 9554, it will not be possible to downgrade it back to version 953A and earlier. In addition, the FAStT100 storage server will not be able to upgrade the EXP100 ESM firmware from version 953x and earlier to version 955x or later. DO NOT upgrade your EXP100 ESM firmware until you read the upgrade instructions provided in Appendix A of the IBM TotalStorage DS4000/FAStT EXP100 Expansion Unit Installation, User's and Maintenance Guide (P/N GC26-7694-01). ======================================================================= 1.2 Enhancements ----------------- This ESM firmware version 9563 must be used in conjunction with the controller firmware version 06.12.16.00 (DS4100 - all models, DS4300 - Standard and Turbo models, DS4400 - all models and DS4500 - all models) or 06.15.20.05 (DS4800 - all models) to provide support the new 400G SATA drive options and CRUs (P/Ns 39M4570 and 39M4575, respectively) in addition to the new 250G SATA drive CRUs (P/N 40K6837.) This new 250G SATA drive CRU is functionally equivalent to the previously-released CRUs (P/N 90P1349). ======================================================================= 1.3 Prerequisites ------------------ N/A ======================================================================= 1.4 Dependencies ----------------- N/A ======================================================================= 2.0 Change History ----------------------------- ====================================================================== 2.1 Version history ------------------- - 9563 - 11/21/2005 When using with the controller firmware version 06.12.16.00 (DS4100 - all models, DS4300 - Standard and Turbo models, DS4400 - all models and DS4500 - all models) or 06.15.20.05 (DS4800 - all models), the EXP100 drive expansion enclosure supports the new 400G SATA drive options and CRUs (P/Ns 39M4570 and 39M4575, respectively) in addition to the new 250G SATA drive CRUs (P/N 40K6837.) This new 250G SATA drive CRU is functionally equivalent to the previously-released CRUs (P/N 90P1349). - 9554 - 06/18/2004 - Support EXP100 full failover capability in conjunction with the DS4000/FAStT controller firmware version 05.41.5x.xx and higher. - Enable EXP100 drive expansion enclosures to connect to FAStT100. - 953A - 04/08/2004 - Fix Storage Router FW defect that caused the FW to render an enclosure drive slot unusable. The drive slot would become unusable in the event a defective drive carrier was inserted. - Power Supply fault LED control intermittent issue - Drive failures as a result of Hard Reset - Increase I2C timeout at SOD to avoid unnecessary reboot - Integrate 3.35 SR1216 firmware into LHA SATA ESM firmware - 9534 - 01/12/2004 - fix the erroneous clearing of the pending interrupt bit in the status/command completion register - return correct SATA drive error code - 9532 - 12/22/2004 - initial release - Support for IBM TotalStorage EXP100 drive expansion enclosures. ======================================================================= 2.2 ESM firmware release level is as follows ------------------------------------------------- - 9563 1. esm9563.dl Note: This version of the ESM firmware requires the existing EXP100 ESM firmware be at version 9554. It can not be used to upgrade EXP100 ESMs with ESM firmware version 953x or earlier. Refer to the IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems Technical Support web site for the latest released code levels. http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/ ======================================================================= 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions ----------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: 1. If the current version of the EXP100 ESM firmware is 953X or earlier. all IOs to the DS4000/FAStT storage server must be stopped while the ESM firmware is downloaded to the EXP100 ESMs. In addition, clustering services such as Microsoft MSCS must also be stopped if the cluster disks and quorum disks are defined using the logical drives in the EXP100 enclosures whose ESMs are being updated with new firmware. 2. If the current version of the EXP100 ESM firmware is 953X or earlier, DO NOT upgrade ESM firmware until you read the upgrade instructions provided in Appendix A of the IBM TotalStorage DS4000/FAStT EXP100 Expansion Unit Installation and User's Guide (P/N GC26-7694-01). You must upgrade to the ESM firmware version 9554 first before you can upgrade the ESMs to firmware version 9563. DS4000/FAStT EXP100 drive expansion ESM firmware is downloaded via a menu option in the DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager 9 Client program. Please refer to the IBM DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager version 9.1x Installation and Support Guides appropriate to your operating systems for instructions to install and start the DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager 9 Client program. To download drive expansion ESM firmware, do the following: a. Open the Subsystem Management window. b. Click Advanced => Download => Environmental(ESM) Card Firmware. Follow the online instructions to download the ESM firmware (esm9563.dl) file. If you select only one EXP100 enclosure for ESM firmware download at a time, you can download ESM firmware while the server conducts I/O activity. However, IBM recommends that you suspend all I/O activity to perform firmware upgrades. You must suspend all I/O activity while ESM firmware downloads if you select multiple enclosures for downloading ESM firmware in the Select Enclosure to download window. Note: When you specify the file name of the ESM firmware file to download, you might need to select All Files in the Files of type pull-down menu to display the correct file name for the ESM firmware file. If you do, then a warning window opens. Click OK when the warning window opens to continue. Note: After the ESM firmware is updated, consider checking the IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems Technical Support web site for the latest released SATA hard drive firmware and the FAStT storage server controller firmware and NVSRAM files. ======================================================================= 3.2 Helpful Hints ------------------ 1. The ideal configuration for SATA drives is one drive in each EXP per array, one logical drive per array and one OS disk partition per logical drive. This configuration minimizes the random head movements that increase stress on the SATA drives. As the number of drive locations to which the heads have to move increases, application performance and drive reliability may be impacted. If more logical drives are configured , but not all of them used simultaneously, some of the randomness can be avoided. SATA drives are best used for long sequential reads and writes. 2. It is recommended to have at lease 1 hot-spare defined per EXP100 enclosure. ======================================================================= 4.0 Configuration Information ----------------------------- 4.1 Configuration Settings -------------------------- N/A ======================================================================= 4.2 Unsupported configurations ------------------------------ N/A ======================================================================= 5.0 Unattended Mode --------------------- N/A ======================================================================= 6.0 WEB Sites and Support Phone Number ---------------------------------------- 6.1 IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems Technical Support web site: http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/ 6.2 IBM TotalStorage™ Marketing Web Site: http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk 6.3 If you have any questions about this update, or problem applying the update go to the following HelpCenter World Telephone Numbers URL: http://www.ibm.com/planetwide IMPORTANT: You should download the latest version of the DS4000 Storage Manager host software, the DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware, the DS4000 drive expansion enclosure ESM firmware and the drive firmware at the time of the initial installation and when product updates become available. To be notified of important product updates, you must first register at the IBM Support and Download Web site: http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/ Perform the following steps to register at the IBM Support and Download Web site: 1. Click on My Support in the Additional Support box in the right side of the DS4000 Support web page. 2. The Sign In window displays. Either enter your IBM ID and Password in the sign in area to sign in and proceed to step 6 or, if you are not currently registered with the site, click Register Now. 3. The My IBM Registration window Step 1 of 2 opens. Enter the appropriate information and click Continue to get to the second My IBM Registration window. 4. In the My IBM Registration window Step 2 of 2, enter the appropriate information and click Submit to register. 5. The My IBM Registration windows opens with the following message, “Thank you for registering with ibm.com. Continue to explore ibm.com as a registered user.” Click Edit Profile in the My IBM box on the right side of the window. 6. The My Support window opens. Click Add Products to add products to your profile. 7. Use the pull-down menus to choose the appropriate DS4000 storage server and expansion enclosures that you want to add to your profile. To add the product to your profile, select the appropriate box or boxes next to the product names and click Add Product. (Storage->Computer Storage->Disk Storage Systems-> TotalStorage DS4000 ... ->TotalStorage DS4000 EXP100 ... (or your particular DS4000 storage subsystem model)) 8. Once the product or products are added to your profile, click Subscribe to Email folder tab 9. Select Storage in the pull down menu. Select Please send these documents by weekly email and select Downloads and drivers and Flashes to receive important information about product updates. Click Updates. 10. 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