OMIVV allows you to perform BIOS and firmware
updates on all hosts of a cluster. The wizard only updates hosts that
are part of a connection profile and compliant in terms of firmware,
CSIOR status, hypervisor, and OMSA status (11th generation servers
only). OMIVV performs a cluster aware firmware update if Distribute
Resource Scheduling (DRS) is enabled on the cluster, by migrating
the workload when a host enters or exits maintenance mode.
Prerequisites
Ensure that
the following conditions are met before running the firmware update
wizard:
There are no active firmware update jobs for any
hosts under the cluster that you are updating.
About this task
NOTE: VMware recommends clusters
to be built with identical server hardware.
NOTE: During the firmware
update process, Dell recommends not to delete the following:
The host/hosts of a cluster from vCenter for which
the firmware update job is in progress.
The connection profile of the host/hosts of a cluster
for which the firmware update job is in progress.
Steps
To launch the Firmware Update wizard, in OpenManage
Integration, click Clusters and perform either
of the following substeps:
Click a cluster, select Actions > All OpenManage Integration Actions > Firmware Update.
In the Objects tab, select Actions > All OpenManage Integration
Actions > Firmware Update.
Click a cluster, select Monitor > Dell Cluster Information > Firmware. In the Firmware screen, click the Run
Firmware Wizard link.
Right-click a cluster, select Actions > All OpenManage Integration
Actions > Firmware Update.
The Welcome page of the firmware update wizard is displayed.
View the Welcome page, and click Next.
The Select Servers screen is displayed.
In the Select Servers window, in the Name tree view, use the check
boxes to select the hosts.
Click Next.
The Select
Update Source screen is displayed where you can select
the bundles. The repository location is also displayed.
In the Select Update
Source screen, select the model name of the selected hosts
from the displayed list in the Select Bundles area.
Each model of the selected host has a drop-down
list next to the host name from which you can select the required
bundle. Select at least one bundle for firmware update.
NOTE: OMIVV supports 32–bit
and 64–bit bundles for firmware update. Apart from these bundles,
OMIVV also creates a hybrid bundle when there are multiple bundles
available in the catalog with the same release ID.
NOTE: 64-bit bundles are not supported for 11th generation hosts on all
iDRAC versions, and 12th generation hosts with iDRAC version 1.51 and
earlier.
Click Next.
The Select Components screen is displayed. The screen displays the details of components
such as cluster, model, host name, Service Tag, component, version,
update version, criticality, reboot required (Yes/No), and other details
for the selected host.
In the Select Components page, use the check boxes to select at least one component from
the list, and click Next to proceed.
You can filter comma-separated values from
the content of the various components of the data grid by using the Filter field. You can also drag and drop columns within
the component data grid. If you want to export from the wizard, use
the Export to CSV button. By selecting the Allow Firmware downgrade check box, you can select a
firmware version earlier than the current version.
In the FW Update Information page, view all the firmware update details.
Click Next.
The Schedule Firmware Update screen is displayed.
Enter the firmware update job name in the Firmware Update Job Name field.
The firmware update job name is mandatory
and does not use a name that is already in use. If you purge the firmware
update job name, you can reuse it again.
Enter the firmware update description in
the Firmware Update Description field.
The description is optional.
Under Schedule Firmware Updates, select an option from the following:
To run the update job now, click Update
Now.
To run the update job later, click Schedule
Update, and then perform the following subtasks:
In the Calendar box, select
the month and day.
In the Time text box, type
the time in HH:MM.
Click Next.
The Summary page is displayed.
In the Summary page, click Finish and the The
firmware update job has been created successfully message
is displayed.
Results
The firmware update job takes several minutes to complete
and time varies based on the number of hosts that are selected and
the number of components in each host. You can view the status of
the firmware update jobs in the Job Queue page. To access the job queue page, in OpenManage Integration, select Monitor > Job Queue > Firmware Updates. . Once the firmware update task is
complete, the inventory runs automatically on the selected hosts and
hosts exit automatically from maintenance mode.
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