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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2004
Yutaka Takata, Ninomiya, JP;
Naotaka Kobayashi, Odawara, JP;
Takeshi Hashimoto, Manaduru, JP;
Akiyoshi Hashimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Shinichi Nakayama, Chigasaki, JP;
Yutaka Takata, Ninomiya, JP;
Naotaka Kobayashi, Odawara, JP;
Takeshi Hashimoto, Manaduru, JP;
Akiyoshi Hashimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Shinichi Nakayama, Chigasaki, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A technique that can update the firmware with services for clients continued on a circuit board that comprises a control unit of a storage system is provided. A plurality of blade that comprise control unit have previous BIOS on flash memory. Clusters are formed including the blade which is subject to firmware update. At the time of updating the firmware, for the update candidate substrate, the processing unit including processing to move the service provided by OS of blade to be subject to firmware update processing to OS of other blade in the cluster as well as firmware update processing for updating previous BIOS of blade which no longer provides services by the use of the BIOS update program and new BIOS image.