Dell EMC PowerSwitch N3000E-ON Series - Page 14

Upgrade Dell EMC Networking N3000E-ON Switches
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Administrators setting up mixed stack of N3000E-ON and N3132PX-ON Stacked switches should follow the
below steps below:
1. Back up your configuration of N3000E-ON Stack and N3132PX-ON Stack Switches.
2. Upgrade using telnet or SSH require default enable authentication method or enable password in current
configuration. If not configured follow steps below to configure an enable password:
console#configure
console(config)#enable password <password>
console(config)#exit
console#copy running-config startup-config
3. Download the 6.5.3.36 firmware image (N3000Advv6.5.3.36.stk) to stack of N3000E-ON switches and
firmware image (N3100Advv6.5.3.36.stk) on stack of N3132PX-ON switches.
4. Activate 6.5.3.36 (Advanced) firmware on stack of N3000E-ON switches and stack of N3132PX-ON
switches.
5. Reload the N3000E-ON Stack and N3132PX-ON stack.
6. After stacks are reloaded, download and activate the mixed-stack firmware image
(N3000N3100Advv6.5.3.36.itb) on both stack of N3048EP-ONswitches and stack of N3132PX-ON
switches.
7. Reload both N3000E-ON and N3132PX-ON Stacks again.
8. Power OFF both N3000E-ON Stack and N3132PX-ON Stack of switches. Plug-in mini-SAS stack cables
and form the stack of N3000E-ON and N3132PX-ON switches.
9. Power ON stack (Stack of N3000E-ON with N3132PX-ON switches).
10. Verify the stack of N3000E-ON and N3132PX-ON switches via show switch and show version command
output like below:
Console#show switch
Management Standby Preconfig Plugged-in Switch Code
SW Status Status Model ID Model ID Status Version
--- ---------- --------- ------------- ------------- ------------- -----------
1 Stack Mbr Oper Stby N3132PX-ON N3132PX-ON OK 6.5.3.36
2 Mgmt Sw N3048EP-ON N3048EP-ON OK 6.5.3.36
3 Stack Mbr N3048EP-ON N3048EP-ON OK 6.5.3.36
4 Stack Mbr N3132PX-ON N3132PX-ON OK 6.5.3.36
Console#show version
Machine Description............... Dell EMC Networking Switch
System Model ID................... N3048EP-ON
Machine Type...................... Dell EMC Networking N3048EP-ON
Serial Number.....................
Manufacturer...................... 0xbc00
Burned In MAC Address............. 0090.BC06.A571
System Object ID.................. 1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10895.3060
SOC Version....................... BCM56340_A0
HW Version........................ 5
CPLD Version...................... 20
Image File........................ N3000Advv6.5.3.36
Software Capability............... Stack Limit = 12, VLAN Limit = 4093
unit active backup current-active next-active
---- ----------- ----------- -------------- --------------
1 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36
2 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36
3 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36
4 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36 6.5.3.36