[Info-vax] Inegrity firmware version vs VMS version docs

[Rich Jordan]

Customer is skittish about firmware updates due to the occasional tale of bricked Integrity boxes from a failed firmware update.  I did one update on our inhouse 2620 some time ago with no issues but thats our sum total experience; really nearly all my upgrade work was with VAXen and Alphas over the years.

We are finally moving an RX3600 from V8.3 to V8.4 with current patches; literally the first downtime we've been allowed to preschedule in several years.  I'm going to be pre-staging on a local RX2620 to check for any gotchas that are not model specific.

The machine and VMS are under HPe support (I know...) but the downtime window is going to break if there's a brick event and field service or hardware replacement is needed.  We did call HPe service to see about any 'pre-call' notification so they're ready to go and was told 'no'.  

I'm waiting on access to the support account so I can look at all the 'entitled' downloads, and, apparently, release notes.  I have the firmware kits for our 2620 and do not see anything called out about specific VMS versions or 'must install this intermediate version' so I'm hopeful if we do the firmware it will be a one-shot.

By chance is there a single source of:  what minimum firmware release is required for VMS V8.4  and   what firmware updates can be installed without intermediate firmware updates?  

Thanks