Dell VxRail: Failure occurred while running an upgrade for bundle: VXRAIL_COMPOSITE-7.X.XXXX_for_7.0.x.zip.
Summary: The VxRail cluster was scheduled for the Upgrade and prechecks were green and no issue/alerts reported. However, after a couple of nodes, the upgrade failed with the following error message: Failure occurred while running an upgrade for bundle: VXRAIL_COMPOSITE-7.X.XXXX_for_7.0.x.zip. ...
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Symptoms
he VxRail Cluster upgrade was progressing and out of four nodes, one node was completed. While upgrading the second node, the upgrade script reported an error
Failure occurred while running an upgrade for bundle: VXRAIL_COMPOSITE-7.0.451-28053212_for_7.0.x.zip. The error message: Failure occurred while scheduling firmware. The error message: FAILURE..
Cause
There are stale entries in the iDRAC.
Resolution
To clear the stale entries, reboot the iDRAC on the VxRail node and restart the upgrade.
Steps:
1. Login to the iDRAC page for the node when the cluster reported the issue.
2. Navigate to Maintenance
3. Click on Diagnostics and reboot iDRAC.
4. Wait for 10 minutes and restart the upgrade from the VxRail page.
Steps:
1. Login to the iDRAC page for the node when the cluster reported the issue.
2. Navigate to Maintenance
3. Click on Diagnostics and reboot iDRAC.
4. Wait for 10 minutes and restart the upgrade from the VxRail page.
Additional Information
This is a temporary workaround to get the upgrade complete. As a best practice from support, It is better to reboot the nodes and reboot of the iDRAC's before starting the upgrade.