Firmware update HPE smartarray 6i in linux

Playing around with old hardware brought me to a place where I needed to firmware upgrade some HPE Smart Array 6i controllers in linux (Centos6). Fairly simple actually

[root@dl385 ~]# sh ./CP009358.scexe
Firmware CD Supplemental Update / Online ROM Flash Component for Linux - Smart Array 6i
* Version of rom to be flashed: 2.84
* Number of controllers: 1
* The version of existing Array ROM is 2.68
* 1 controller(s) will be flashed
* This operation may take about 2 minutes
Flash ROMs Now? (Yes/No): yes
Flashing 1 controller(s), please wait....
Success: Product 40910e11 at controller position 0
with old version 2.68 has been updated with new version 2.84.
ROM Flash complete. New firmware will take effect when the server is rebooted.
As part of the reboot process, you should power cycle the server and any
external drive arrays.

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