• Connect to the iDRAC GUI.
NOTE: For information about configuring and accessing the iDRAC GUI see
iDRAC Quick Starrt
Guide
at
dell.com/support/home
.
4.
Mount the Dell Nautilus ISO or the USB key to the system using virtual media.
5.
While restarting the server, press F11 for BIOS boot manager.
6.
From the list, select
EFI Boot Manager
.
7.
From the
EFI boot
list, select
Virtual CD
or the
USB drive
.
8.
To update drive firmware, click
Update Firmware
.
NOTE: Dell Nautilus updates all HDD and SSD firmware for all HDDs and SSDs connected to the
system (both front and rear).
Updating LSI 9207-8i HBA
ESXi hypervisor
1.
From VMware vSphere Web Client or the GUI, turn off the Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) and all
the guest virtual machines (VMs) on the host that have the LSI 9207-8i HBA that you want to update.
2.
Use the VMware vSphere Web Client to complete the on-screen instructions to put the host in
Maintenance Mode.
3.
To disable DirectPath I/O of the LSI 9207-8i HBA, do the following:
a. On the
vCenter Host Management
page, click
Manage
, and from the list select
PCI Devices
.
b. In the
DirectPath I/O PCI Devices
table, right-click
LSI Logic/Symbios Logic
, and then click
Edit
.
c. Clear the
LSI Logic/Symbios Logic
check box from the list and click
OK
.
4.
Restart the system.
5.
After the system restarts, install LSI SAS2Flash Utility and the firmware binary on the system by doing
the following:
a. Download LSI SAS2Flash Utility and the firmware from the LSI website.
b. Using SCP, copy the files to the ESXi host.
c. Log in to the ESXi host by using SSH.
d. Expand the SAS2Flash and firmware compressed file.
e. To install SAS2Flash, at the command line interface (CLI), enter
esxcli software vib
install –force –v <
full path to file.vib
>
.
6.
Update the LSI firmware by running the following commands:
a. To enable the mpt2sas driver, at the CLI, enter
esxcfg-module -e mpt2sas
.
b. To run LSI SAS2Flash to list the controllers on the system, at the CLI, enter
/opt/lsi/bin/
sas2flash –list
.
NOTE: By default, the controller number is 0.
c. To upgrade by using SAS2Flash and the firmware binary extracted earlier, at the CLI,
enter
/opt/lsi/bin/sas2flash -c <controller number> -f <path to firmware
binary>
.
d. To disable the mpt2sas driver, at the CLI, enter
esxcfg-module -d mpt2sas
.
7.
Reenable DirectPath I/O for the LSI 9207-8i HBA by doing the following:
a. On the
vCenter Host Management
page, click
Manage
, and then select
PCI Devices
from the list.
b. In the
DirectPath I/O PCI Devices
table, right-click
LSI Logic/Symbios Logic
, and then click
Edit
.
c. Select the
LSI Logic/Symbios Logic
option from the list and click
OK
.
23
