About Flex Appliance updates

Flex Appliance provides product enhancements and fixes with the following types of releases:

Software updates
A software update contains new features, enhancements, and fixes for Flex Appliance. It modifies the operating system, the appliance interfaces, or both.
Firmware updates
A firmware update modifies the firmware on the appliance hardware components, including the BIOS, storage, network interface cards, and Fibre Channel ports. The version number for a firmware update is not related to the Flex Appliance version.

Cohesity recommends that you install updates when available to make sure that you have the latest product features and fixes.