
With flexible feature expansion capabilities - such as Ports-on-Demand scalability from 8 to 16 or 24 ports (in 8-port increments) - the Brocade 300 enables organizations to start small and grow their storage networks in a non-disruptive manner. The Brocade 300 offers dual functionality as either a full-fabric SAN switch or as an N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)-enabled Brocade Access Gateway that simplifies server connectivity in heterogeneous enterprise fabrics. Now login with your old existing username and password and wait for a while after the reboot to load the old image, this will take a little bit of time and please always follow the procedure of upgrade path which is recommended by brocade and also non-disruptive upgrade path even-though the path of upgrade is more, but it will be a smooth upgrade process.Brocade is the market share leader in Fibre Channel networking and is deployed in 90% of the Fortune 1000 data centers. Preboot=echo echo Type “run flash_nfs” to mount root filesystem over NFS echo LoadIdentifiers=Fabric Operating System Fabric Operating Systemīootcmd=setenv bootargs mem=$ ataboot bootm 0x400000 Set_bootstatus: BS_LOAD_OS, platform_idx = 6

The reboot will look similar to the following:Ĭhecking system RAM – press any key to stop test

Recover password: Generates a character string for your support provider to recover the Boot PROM password.

The Boot PROM menu is displayed with the following options: When prompted to stop test or stop AutoBoot, press Esc. Establish a connection through the switch serial port using a terminal emulator.ģ.
