ELOM to ILOM for Sun Blade x6250

First of all, you need to download necessary files for this upgrade. Go to this link and look for sun blade x6250 entry. At the time of this writing, the latest firmware version is 2.0.4. After you downloaded the file, extract it out and look for this folder "Elom to Ilom". There are 2 important files inside:

• Telom_x6250-053_040.ROM - Traditional version of ILOM
• 6250i203.bin - ILOM image file

According to SUN documentation, you should upgrade your server module to the traditional version of ELOM before migrating it to ILOM.

Initially i like to do this upgrade through web GUI but it always give me the page error when i click the upgrade firmware button. Give up on web GUI, i turn to using command line and surprisingly, is not as hard as i thought.

For command line interface, the extra step you need to do is to prepare TFTP server if you don't have one. For my case, i use SolarWinds Free TFTP server to do it. After finish setup the TFTP server, just copy the 2 files mentioned above to the directory where you put it as root directory on your TFTP server.

The next step is to login to the command line of your server module and execute the following steps:

• cd /SP/TftpUpdate
• set ServerIP=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (your TFTP IP address)
• set FileName=Telom_x6250-053_040.ROM (the traditional ELOM)
• show (optional: just to make sure you provide correct information)
• set Update=action (and the update process begins)

Below shows the screen capture for the update process. Need to wait for couple of minutes before the server module up again.


The steps taken to update to ILOM are similar to steps taken to update to traditional version of ELOM mentioned above.

The video clip below shows what happen to the sun blade x6250 while updating.