VMS automatically checks the firmware on newly discovered QLC drives in DBoxes and EBoxes and upgrades it so that all drives in the cluster have their firmware versions aligned. The upgrade is performed prior to activating the drives as part of cluster deployment, expansion or field replacement procedures.
Note
The firmware version installed as a result of the automatic upgrade may be not the latest firmware version available at the drive manufacturer.
The following limitation applies:
Automatic drive FW upgrade is not performed on drives that have been moved manually from an old DBox to a new DBox during the DBox replacement procedure. (Note that this does not apply to EBoxes.)
This feature is enabled by default. You can alter its status by using the cluster set-drive-fw-upgrade command in VAST CLI.
The progress and outcome of automatic driver firmware upgrade can be monitored in the Activities page of VAST Web UI.