I have been in the process of upgrading our UCS to firmware version 2.0.3b. While I read through the Cisco doc I still didn’t have a great feel for what the upgrade would entail. I did some searching and found the following two links which I think lay out the process really well and make it easy to understand along with some concepts that aren’t as straight forward as I thought they could be.
Actual upgrade of a chassis:
http://terenceluk.blogspot.com/2011/10/updating-cisco-ucs-b-series.html
Difference between Activate and Update on the firmware management tab.
http://jeremywaldrop.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/cisco-ucs-firmware-update-vs-activate/
I hope this help someone else out and make life easier for them.
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