How to find the latest firmware for an HP Brocade SAN switch
How to find out which Brocade Firmware is the latest and which is the last supported one?
- On HP SPOCK: http://h20272.www2.hp.com/ (this required an HP Passport, they are free to create).
- Go to Switches, then click on B-series connectivity stream.
The B-series conenctivity stream document gets updated often and it has the recommended (usually latest) and the supported Fabric OS releases for each switch type.
How to find the last supported firmware for an HP Brocade SAN switch
Usually the EOL of a firmware is announced when a new one is released. See this customer notice of 6.4.1b: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02766238