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Dell EMC Unity: How to check and disable automatic drive firmware upgrade (User Correctable)

Summary: 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 In the Seahawk release, the online drive firmware upgrade is periodically run on a physical Unity system to upgrade outdated drives.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.

Affected Products

Dell EMC Unity, Dell EMC Unity 300F, Dell EMC Unity 350F, Dell EMC Unity 400, Dell EMC Unity 400F, Dell EMC Unity 450F, Dell EMC Unity 500, Dell EMC Unity 500F, Dell EMC Unity 550F, Dell EMC Unity 600, Dell EMC Unity Family |Dell EMC Unity All Flash

Products

Dell EMC Unity XT 380, Dell EMC Unity XT 380F, Dell EMC Unity XT 480, Dell EMC Unity XT 480F, Dell EMC Unity 600F, Dell EMC Unity 650F, Dell EMC Unity XT 680, Dell EMC Unity XT 680F, Dell EMC Unity XT 880, Dell EMC Unity XT 880F , Dell EMC Unity Family |Dell EMC Unity All Flash, Dell EMC Unity Hybrid, Dell EMC UnityVSA Professional Edition/Unity Cloud Edition ...
Article Properties
Article Number: 000218180
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 15 Nov 2023
Version:  2
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