Hi, Daniel or Dell Support.
Is this thread for Ian only? Or I can ask questions about our C6220 as well? Our problems is also about updating BIOS and Firmware. I tried your suggested instructions with the Support Live Image bootable CD, but it does not contain any BIOS, Firmware, etc to update. It only has the DSET utility but when opening the report it asks for a password.
Here are my details questions/problems. Please spare a moment. Thank you very much in advance!
1/ How may I change the server's name, and IPMI name?
2/ BIOS/Firmware updates: This is what I have done thus far, and now having issue with the BIOS not seeing the BMC:
(a) I tried creating SBUU from Dell Repository Manager and was able to create the DVD but then it isn't bootable.
(b) Because I was unable to create a bootable SBUU, therefore I decided to install Windows 2008 R2 to one of our older hard drive and booted from our Node#1 first, downloaded and updated these from support.dell.com, on to node#1:
www.dell.com/.../drivers
- BIOS 2.5.3 (file name: BIOS_YR4WF_WN64_2.5.3)
-BMC Firmware 2.53 (file name: ESM_Firmware_Y4DVN_WN32_2.53)
(c) AFTER successfully updated BMC firmware 2.5.3, the BIOS settings does not see BMC and/or IPMI. What should I do? I tried updating older version of BMC firmware v2.25 (ESM_Firmware_V4DTW_WN32_2.25.EXE) but it said incompatible and thus, failed! I also don't know how to uninstall v2.53. What is the best and simplest way to fix this problem?
NOTE: everytime booting the server, it display message "configuring memory" for at least a few minutes. It used to be pretty fast before all the updates.
(d) Do I need to update firmware in any order? This article said for the C6000 (NOT specifically C6220) states we must 1/ update FCB once for on the 4th node first; then 2/ BMC and BIOS once per node.
github.com/.../server-dell-cseries-c6220
(e) Do I need updating anything else beside FCB, BMC, and BIOS? Which are the important/critical that must be updated?
Sincerely,
Mike