Installation options

You can specify firmware upgrade behavior for installable components by selecting one or more options from the Additional Options field. Depending on the component type, one of the following screens appears.

Set Installation Options

CAUTION: Updating the firmware while a shared device is in use can lead to data loss. Before enabling the Allow Shared Devices option, be sure any other servers sharing the selected devices are offline.

Select Allow Downgrades to downgrade the current firmware to an older version.
Select Allow Rewrites to enable HP Smart Update Manager to overwrite the current firmware version with the same version.
Select Allow Shared Devices to upgrade firmware in a shared storage environment.

NOTE: HP Smart Update Manager does not support Allow Downgrades or Allow Rewrites for the HP Virtual Connect Ethernet and Fibre Channel Modules for c-Class BladeSystem firmware component.

The following table illustrates how changing the options for firmware upgrade behavior can change the firmware upgrade results. In this example, the array controller is assumed to be an HP Smart Array 6402 controller.

If the existing array controller has firmware version 3.00 installed, then updating the firmware produces results as described in the following table.

	Default	Allow downgrades	Allow rewrites
Firmware upgrade v3.05	3.05	3.05	3.05
Firmware upgrade v3.10	3.10	3.10	3.10

If the existing array controller has firmware version 3.10 installed, then updating the firmware produces results as described in the following table.

	Default	Allow downgrades	Allow rewrites
Firmware upgrade v3.05	No change	3.05	3.10
Firmware upgrade v3.10	No change	No change	3.10

NOTE: When updating installation for NIC components, select the devices to be updated in the window that appears.

After you have selected all the components that you want to install, click Install to proceed with the installation. The Installation Progress screen appears.